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VOICES OF THE FAITH 



VOICES OF THE FAITH 

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CONTAINING A SELECTIo\**2Ez2s2b^ 

FOR 

EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR 

FROM WRITERS 
EXPRESSING THE UNIVERSALIST FAITH 



By T. W. HANSON, D.D. 
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Copyright, 1884, 
By Universalist Publishing House. 



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John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. 



Preface. 



The plan on which this book was projected was to 
place the name and contribution of each author quoted 
under the date of his own birth, and at least one on 
each date. But it was soon seen, that in many instances 
this would be impracticable ; for, not anticipating the 
importance or even the existence of this publication, 
in many instances those whose names are found in it 
were so perverse as to have been born on dates already 
pre-empted by others. This necessitated either placing 
several names under one date, or under other dates than 
their own. Accordingly, each name is found under the 
date of its owner's birth, unless otherwise specified. 
Where the compiler was unable to ascertain a writer's 
birthday, an asterisk (*) is affixed to the name. Where 
the birthday had already been occupied, and was known, 
the name is found elsewhere, and the date follows the 
writer's name. Besides these, a large number of names 
and dates, without extracts, will be found on their appro- 
priate pages, in the lower left margins. 

It was the compiler's design to name all the living min- 
isters of our church ; and he sent a circular to each one 



Preface. 

in our Year-book whose birthday he did not know, re- 
questing dates and an extract. Those not mentioned, 
and those mentioned whose dates are not given, are those 
from whom no response has been received. 

Like a great, a precious diamond, the kohinoor of 
Christian doctrines, the idea of universal salvation 
flashes divine light from every facet and at every angle. 
Turn it which way we may, look at it from any point of 
view, and some new and brilliant hue delights the eye. 
The pages of this book will show some of the many 
phases which this great truth presents to different 
minds. 

J. W. HANSON. 



VOICES OF THE FAITH 



^anuacp. 



These, as they change, Almighty Father, these 
Are but the varied God. The rolling year 
Is full of thee. . . . 

... I cannot go 
Where Universal Love smiles not around, 
From seeming evil still e'ducing good. 
And better thence again, and better still, 
In infinite progression. 

James Thomson. 

His days are numbered, 

The number of his months is with Thee, 

Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. 

Job xiv. 5. 

He giveth snow like wool : he scattereth the hoar-frost liks 
ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels : who can stand 
before his cold ? — Ps. cxlvii. 16. 17. 

Of Him, through Him, and to Him are all things. — Rom. 
xi. 36. 



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3anuarg 1. 

The word " lost " itself has a force in it in favor of 
the doctrine of universal grace and salvation. Men 
could not be lost in sin if they did not belong to God. 
It would be impossible to lose a man who belonged 
nowhere. When, therefore, God speaks of sinners as 
being lost, it shows they belong to him. All men are 
lost while in a state of sin. "All we, like sheep, have 
gone astray." The sheep could not go astray if they 
had no owner, and if they belonged to no fold. Where 
it is said, therefore, that they have gone astray, it pre- 
supposes they belong to some owner, and have a fold. 
The same is true in regard to sinners. They are lost ; 
they have gone astray from God ; Jesus is the shepherd, 
the good shepherd, and giveth his life for the sheep ; 
and he gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified 
in due time. 

Rev. Thomas Whittemore, D.D., 1800-1861. 



3amtaru 2. 



The doctrine that God is our Father solves the prob- 
lem of human life. It is a pledge that our infinite Friend 
ordains our respective allotments, however dark or sad 
they may seem to be ; that our whole life, through all 
its stages and fortunes, its mingled web of events, inci- 
dents, and vicissitudes, its alternations of health and 
sickness, joy and sorrow, prosperity and adversity, and 
even our sins and follies, will be made the means of 
everlasting progress in knowledge, virtue, and bliss. 

*Rev. Theodore Clapp, D.D. 



Sanuatg 1. 



Sattuartj 2. 



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Samtarg 3. 



I cannot believe that any human being can be beyond 
the reach of God's grace and the sanctifying power of his 
spirit. And, if all are within his reach, is it possible to 
suppose that he will allow any to remain unsanctified ? 
Is not the love revealed in Jesus Christ a love unlimited, 
unbounded, which will not leave undone anything which 
love could desire ? It was surely nothing else than the 
complete and universal triumph of that love which Paul 
was contemplating when he cried out, " Oh the depth of 
the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! " 
Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, 1788-1870. 



Sanuarg 4. 



God must be accomplishing a design invariable, and 
without the shadow of turning, — the design to save 
every one of us everlastingly. 

* Florence Nightingale, 1820- 



JJanuarp 3. 



Samtarp 4. 



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Jfanuarg 5. 



Only one who could compass the whole register of the 
soul, measuring the heights of joy, and sounding the 
mysterious depths of grief, could translate into our 
human language the sublime messages, which since crea- 
tion's dawn have been telegraphed along a thousand 
lines of material communication, telephoned in the har- 
monies of nature, and wrought into the whole web of 
history. Only such a one could gather up the fragments 
of truth scattered along the pathway of the nations, and 
so arrange and vivify them that they should satisfy the 
needs of the world. Only Jesus has been able to inter- 
pret that word which was in the beginning with God. 
Rev. Olympia Brown-Willis, 1835- 



Sanuarg 6. 



If I am to be a minister of religion, I must teach the 
poor people that they have a Father in heaven, not a 
tyrant ; one who loves them all beyond power of heart 
to conceive ; who is sorry when they do wrong, not 
angry ; whom they are to love and dread, not with cai- 
tiff coward fear, but with deepest awe and reverence, as 
the all-pure, all-good, all-holy. I could never fear a 
God who kept a hell prison-house — no, not though he 
flung me there because I refused. 

J. A. Froude, 1818- 



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Hanuarg 5. 



Sanuarg 6. 



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Sanuarg 7. 



I know that He who gives can take, 

And doeth both in love ; 
I gladly take His " strong right hand," 

That leadeth me above. 

And so with joy I tread along 

The future left for me, 
Knowing I soon shall reach the land 

Of immortality. 

Elisabeth L. Mather, 1815- 



JJanuarg 8. 



No Christian soul can pray or hope for the endless 
ruin of a single human soul, — can regard it even with 
complacency, much less with " a joy full of glory." If 
the tongue proclaim faith in such an issue of any human 
life, the heart rebels against, and cannot pray for it. 
Such a faith does not satisfy, and therefore cannot give 
rest. It is only that faith which reveals a home for all — 
where kindred, friends, and the whole world shall surely 
meet, all saved and blest at last — that can satisfy any 
benevolent or Christian soul, or that any such soul can 
possibly pray or hope for. 

*Rev. W. S. Ballou. 



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Sanuarg 




Sanuarg 9. 



What I wish to see, what I think essential to our 
greatest efficiency and success, is that every man who 
calls himself a Universalist should cordially enroll him- 
self as a member of our body, feel himself a part of it, 
and acknowledge his obligations to render it faithful 
service. Mere hangers-on, idle, indifferent drones in any 
hive, are often a greater hindrance than help. We want 
members, indeed: I desire to see our denomination 
large and strong ; but, if this cannot be at once, let us 
make amends by being united and active, full of courage 
and vigor. With such union and energy there is nothing 
really necessary or indeed desirable that we cannot do. 

Rev. T. J. Sawyer, D.D., 1804- 
Rev. Alexander Mc Arthur, 1817-1872. 



Sanuarg 10. 



The Sacred Scripture does indeed call our God a con- 
suming fire (Deut. iv. 24), and says that rivers of fire go 
before his face (Dan. vii. 10). As, therefore, God is a 
consuming fire, what is it that is to be consumed by him ? 
We say it is wickedness, and whatever proceeds from it, 
such as is figuratively called hay, wood, and stubble. 
These are what God in the character of fire consumes. 
He shall come also as a refiner's fire, to purify rational 
nature from the alloy of wickedness, and from other im- 
pure nature which has adulterated, if I may so say, the 
intellectual gold and silver. Rivers of fire are, likewise, 
said to go before the face of God, for the purpose of con- 
suming whatever of evil is admixed with the soul. — 
Contra Celsum, lib. iv. cap. xiii. 

Origen Adamantius, 180-254. 



Sanuarg 9. 



Sanuarg 10. 



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Samiarp 11. 



But what a divine power we may grow to be, what 
an irresistible but benignant kingdom over the minds 
and hearts of men we may establish, when we shall 
more constantly and fully recognize the power of the 
Holy Spirit in the work of saving souls ; when our rea- 
sonable doctrines shall be united to a living faith in 
God, to a personal saving knowledge of Christ ! Did 
we have more spiritual life and action, these material 
concerns of our churches, about which we so much 
worry, would of necessity be cared for efficiently, and 
prosper greatly. 

*Rev. J. M. Bailey. 



Samiarg 12. 



God is a worker. He has thickly strewn 
Infinity with grandeur. God is love. 
He yet shall wipe away creation's tears, 
And all the worlds shall summer in his smile. 

Alexander Smith, 1800-1867. 

Father and God, whose love and might 

To every sense are blazoned bright 
On the vast three-leaved Bible, — earth, sea, sky, — 

Pardon the impugners of thy laws, 

Expand their hearts, and give them cause 
To bless the exhaustless grace they now deny. 

Horace Smith, 1799-1849. 



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3anuatg 11. 



Kanuarg 12. 



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Sanuarg 13. 

I am a Universalist primarily because I believe in 
the sovereignty of God. 

He made the worlds and all they contain. He made 
man, as all things else, for his pleasure. All that he has 
made he governs continually. He relaxes no part of 
his control. He cannot be disappointed in his work. 
He never fails. He will not have to " try, try, try again.'''' 
His government of all things is a perfect success. Those 
who make the divine government appear a miserable 
failure libel the Deity most dishonorably. Hence my 
trust in the divine goodness. " He cannot deceive nor 
be deceived ; " but he will do all his pleasure. 

" I make peace, and create evil, I the Lord do all 

these things." 

Rev. Robert Blacker, 1813- 

Samtarg 14. — 

There was one prominent thought that took posses- 
sion of my mind even in my boyhood years, and which 
has steadily remained there to the present time. I 
thought of God as the Father of all spirits. And it 
seemed clear to my mind that the relation of Father and 
child, subsisting between God and man, was such as 
could not be created by any acts of obedience on our 
part, or destroyed by any deeds of sinfulness. If the 
relation thus named could be absolutely destroyed by 
sin, the sinner would at once be released from all filial 
obligation to his Maker, and would henceforward be 
regarded as no better than a beast. 

In this seventy-fifth year of my age and the fifty-third 
of my public ministry, the thought of which I have 
spoken is still uppermost in my mind, and it gives shape 
and character and strengthening to my Christian faith. 

Rev. Asher Moore, Jan. 13, 1810- 



3amtatg 13. 



Sanuatg 14. 



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Sanuatg 15. 



My faith is grounded in the nature of God and man. 
God, the supreme mind, controls all, and is through and 
over all. He is love. Man is made to be in his like- 
ness. The fulness of this was shown in Jesus : it will 
be shown, in the fulness of time, in all mankind, for 
God cannot fail. All man's intuitive tendencies, the 
bent of every power of his spirit, is toward this complete- 
ness, — this oneness in Christ and God. The child 
inherits all the nature of its father : so we are heirs of 
the divine nature ; and no power can or will disinherit 
one of us. And in this self-evident position I rest; 
nor fear nor doubt nor creed can shake my trust. 

Rev. Lindley M. Andrews, 1836- 



.Sanuarg 16. 



And who saith, " I loved once " ? 
Not God, called Love, his noble crown-name casting 

A light too broad for blasting. 
The great God, changing not from everlasting, 

Saith never " I loved once." 

Mrs. E. B. Browning, 1809-1861. 



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Kanuarg 15. 



iJanuarg 16. 



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Sanuarg 17. 



It is more and more seen and felt that God is working 
with man and for man to enlighten, purify, and strengthen 
him in spiritual things ; that man has his part to do in 
bringing sin to an end, and in making the universe of 
intelligent creatures the willing and acceptable subjects 
of their spiritual Ruler. The righteous consummation 
is decreed and promised on the ground of divine and 
human co-operation. Prophets announced it; Christ 
proclaimed it ; apostles reiterated it. The Revelator in 
vision foresaw it, and he heard every creature which is in 
heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such 
as are in the sea, and all that are in them, saying, Bless- 
ing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto Him that 
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and 
ever! — the whole universe joining in ascriptions of 
praise to the Saviour. 

Rev. I. J. Mead, 1841- 



Sanuarg 18. 



Sorely as we have offended, we can do nothing fatal. 
Sheer blasphemy and inhumanity in the old theology is 
the doctrine of a doom to perdition and eternal woe for 
our personal or our ancestral delinquency. The bottom- 
less pit were a blot on Deity, though but one soul wal- 
lowed in it. 

*Rev. C. A. Bartol, D.D. 



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Sanuatn 17. 



Sartuarg 18. 



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3anuarp 19. 



My early religious impressions were received in the 
atmosphere of parti alism. The church, the Sunday 
school, and the home made the awful future a serious 
reality to my young heart. So firmly was " orthodoxy " 
instilled into me, that much of the joy peculiar to child- 
hood was changed into sadness. 

Pkit, when other influences entered my heart a little 
later in life, this world itself had a larger meaning to me, 
and God became to me, not the monster which " ortho- 
doxy " had taught, but the righteous Father who owns 
all worlds and all people, and that relationship a tie 
never to be broken. And Christ became to my soul, 
not the messenger of death, but one with good tidings 
of great joy. And it has ever since been my aim to pro- 
claim that good news, that the world might be blessed. 

Rev. William Percival Burnell, 185 i- 
Rev. F. E. KOLLOCK, 1848. 

Sanuarg 20. 



The sense of the universal is the sense of the divine 

everywhere. We live by faith in the divine thought and 

purpose. Earth and stars, sun, sky, and air, plants and 

animals, the dust- atom and man, are all significant to us 

by God's working in them. The darker providence we 

rest in him by faith. The thing of beauty we hail with 

joy. The life of virtue, tenderness, aspiration, so rich 

in thought, blessings, praise, and prayer, we receive as 

the divine pledge to man. Lile becomes more and more. 

Our relationships to atoms and stars, creatures and men, 

are sacred. Conscious duties are upon us. And more 

than those duties are is God in the divine moralities 

working the infinite work. In the faith in God, coming 

on the unseen courses of the Spirit, man in these scenes 

of outer nature, and in living and in dying, is comforted. 

God is better and greater than all earth's need, than all 

human longing, need, and joy. 

Rev. S. W. Sutton, 1850- . 
Rev. Walter Ferris, 1768-1806. 



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ianuarg 19. 



Sanuarg 20. 



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Sanuarg 21. 

As cause and effect are in likeness of nature one and 
inseparable, it follows that man's life, however affected 
by things seemingly adverse to it, as negatives resist and 
chafe against their positives, can never lose its positive 
sense of conscious existence as posited in likeness of na- 
ture with God : hence " the everlasting redeemableness " 
of the human soul. The life of God in it is the pledge 
of its redemption. 

It is false in fact to say that the things in man's nature 
and conditions that antagonize his spiritual manhood can 
be held as cause of final and eternal separation from God, 
for the divinity of his manhood admitted to co-exist with 
the human is there ; and, where God is in such high 
sense of self-evident purpose of wisdom and goodness, 
there can be no rational ground in reason or Scripture 
for the common and repulsive idea of final separation 
from God. 

Rev. William C. Brooks, Jan. 20, 1824- 



3anuarg 22. 



I would be perfect as my Father in heaven is perfect, 
for an accumulated pleasure attends each accession to 
my virtues. Are providential events encircled with 
clouds, faith points me to a smiling God beyond them. 
I love that God, for he smiles on my efforts to forsake 
my sins. I will worship him, for he is my Father. 

Rev. T. J. Tenney, i 807-1854. 
Rev. Orren Roberts, 1811-1882. 
Rev. B. F. STRAIN, 1823-1877. 
Rev. Z. COOK, 1821- 



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Sanuarg 21. 



Danuarg 22. 



JJanuarg 23. 



Pure love is the only eternal fire. 

Madame De la Motte Guyon. 



3anuaru 24. 



We are more and more profoundly impressed with the 
practical value of " Our Faith " as we make the person 
of Jesus Christ, in his life, death, and resurrection, of 
vital force in our hearts ; for Jesus came, not to save sin- 
ners from "endless misery," but from unholy thoughts, 
words, and deeds. " He shall save his people from their 
sins." His salvation rescues us from sin by impressing 
the heart to make itself pure. Jesus, then, is the Deliv- 
erer from wickedness by becoming a positive element 
within us for good. It is permitted the now time to 
witness the slow yet sure and steady progress of this 
salvation. Eternity can alone behold its wondrous 
consummation. 

The mind which comprehends and the heart that loves 
this " Faith " will not be satisfied until there is an indi- 
vidual and an absorbing interest in the soul for Christ, 
producing intimate union with the Redeemer. 

Rev. Edward Morris, 1837- 

Rev. N. S. HILL, 1846. 

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Sanuatg 23. 



Jamiarg 24, 



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Sanuarjj 25. 



I believe in the gospel of universal grace, because it 
teaches that every pure desire and every holy affection 
shall find its appropriate object and its perfect realiza- 
tion ; because it fosters and sustains the best hopes of 
men, and sends them out with victorious energy to over- 
throw the wrong, and enthrone the right. 

I believe in the gospel of universal grace, because it 
forms one of the fundamental convictions of humanity, 
being contained in the esoteric teachings, and expressed 
in the symbols of all the cultivated religions of the earth. 

Rev. N. White, Ph.D., 1835- 

Rev. S. W. SAMPLE, JAN. 26, 1855. 



Sanuarrj 26. 



In the broad sea humanity 

A gallant bark with us set sail ; 

But, drifting on, our courses changed 
With the first rising of the gale. 

And we have spoken many a sail, 
And waited answer with white lip, 

In hopes to hear from one who is 
To us through life a missing ship. 

Is she afloat a shattered wreck ? 

Or lies she deep in coral caves ? 
Or is she where those floating bergs 

Wedge them within their icy graves ? 

We cannot know until we gain 

The port for which we all are bound ; 

But there we know all sails will meet, 
And every missing ship be found. 

Hattie Tyng Griswold, i& 



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Sanuarg 25. 



3anuarg 26. 



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Sanuarg 27. 

How can the existence of sin be harmonized with the 
divine goodness ? If God made man, and man sins, is 
not God responsible ? Certainly not. We believe all the 
powers of man were made for noble uses : if he pemert 
those powers, the sin is kis t not God's. 

A locomotive engine is constructed for a definite and 
useful purpose. If the temperature of the boiler is raised 
too high, an explosion occurs, the train is set on fire, 
passengers and freight are all consumed. The daily- 
papers are filled with graphic descriptions of the dread 
calamity. Who is held responsible for the loss ? Is it 
the man who first used steam for motive-power ? A r o. Is 
it the one who made the engine to use the power ? No. 
It is the engineer, — he who runs the machine, he who 
through inattention was the sole cause of the terrible ca- 
lamity. Just so it is with man : he is an engine of God's 
creative skill, called into being to work righteousness. 

Rev. F. A. Dillingham. 

Sanuarg 28. 



How animating, how heart-cheering, the subject of 
God's universal and impartial benevolence ! To me it 
seems the most glowing theme men or angels can dwell 
upon. I find I can gather daily of its wholesome and 
delicious fruits a full supply. In the good Father I fear 
not to trust. 

Eunice Hale Waite Cobb, 

Jan. 27, 1803-18S0. 



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Januarg 27, 



3anuarg 28. 



3anuarg 29. 



A poor woman of great worth and excellent under- 
standing, in whose conversation my father took much 
pleasure, was on her death-bed. Wishing to try her 
faith, he said to her, " Janet, what would you say, if, after 
all he has done for you, God should let you drop into 
hell ? w — * E'en as he likes : he '11 lose more than I do." 

John Brown, M.D. 



JJanuarg 30. 



When we entered the ministry, "the tremendous 
creed " of Calvinism dominated the Protestant world. 
Our demand for a reasonable heaven and a reasonable 
hell grew into affirmations concerning the Bible and 
God and human nature. These affirmations of Univer- 
salism have been so widely received that they have soft- 
ened the heart of Christendom, and have done much to 
expel barbaric ideas and feelings from the Protestant 
world. The general doctrine of our church has leavened 
community. It cannot be suppressed. Its sweetness 
is in the very air we breathe, free as the perfume of the 
world's flowers. The broadness of dominating religious 
ideas and sympathies may be largely due to the trend 
of liberty and general enlightenment; but the reason 
and benevolence of Universalism have done a good 
deal to make it a blessing to the race. 

Rev. J. Riley Johnson, 1818- 



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Sanuarg 29. 



Sannarg 30. 



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Sanuarg 31. 



Holy Lord Jesus, thou wilt search till thou find 
This lost piece of silver, this treasure enshrined 
In casket or bosom, once of such store, 
Now lying under the dust of thy floor. 

There is no such word as " too late " in the wide 
world, nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, 
whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever- 
present eternity — shall we, so long as we live, or even 
at our life's ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, 
" It is too late " ? 

Dinah Muloch Craik, 1826- 



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Sanuarg 31. 



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feBruatp. 



Old churlish Winter's youngest child, 

Though here so boisterous and rude, 
In Egypt is Phamenoth styled, — 

Of the fair moon that bringeth good : 
Her name in Arabic 's sweet, — 
Shasban, or month with hopes replete, 

Forerunner of bright days ; 
And Adar is his Jewish name. 
For then a purifying flame 

Flung far and wide its rays. 

W. H. C. Hosmer. 

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and 
retumsth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it 
bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and 
bread to the eater : so shall my word be that goeth forth out of 
my mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accom- 
plish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing 
whereto I sent it. — Isa. lv. 10, n. 

As birds flying, he scattereth the snow, and the falling-down 
thereof is as the lighting of grasshoppers : the eye marvelleth 
at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is aston- 
ished at the raining of it. — Ecclus. xliii. 17, iS. 

He will finish sin, make an end of transgression, and bring 
in everlasting righteousness. — Dan. ix. 24. 



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jfcbruarg 1. 



Can it be true that God has set bounds to every- 
thing beneath the sun, and left man, as a single excep- 
tion, to an illimited course of rebellion to his laws ? 
Those may believe it who can ; but I must say we have 
no fears that such a position can be true. Men may 
wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived; 
but, when they come to their utmost bound, they can 
go no further. Their progress in wickedness can no 
more be endless than wave following wave can pursue 
its course over the face of the whole earth. 

Rev. S. C. Loveland, Aug. 25, 1787-1S59. 



jW&ruarg 2. 



And haste the hour, O Father, when in all the world 
shall be 

The fold of the one Shepherd, redeemed and blest in 
thee, 

When the dying years of sorrow shall for years of joy 
make room, 

And the heart's Novembers brighten in summer's fade- 
less bloom. 

Anna Maria Bates, 1834-1870. 



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jFAruarg 1. 



jfabruarg 2. 



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jjtbtuarg 3. 



Let no one harbor a doubt of the universality, the 
inexorable, unavoidable certainty, of retribution ! In 
spite of all deceiving appearances, we reap as we have 
sown, and receive as we have deserved. The succes- 
sion of effect to cause is not always instant nor obvi- 
ous : appearances may often seem to ignore or defy 
it as plainly as the sun seems to revolve around the 
earth ; but the truth is only obscured, never sub- 
verted. God reigns ; that is the great first truth. He 
does not merely contemplate and oversee ; he designs, 
directs, and decrees, and is never disconcerted nor 
disappointed. What to us are aberrations, defeats, 
disasters, are, to Him "who foreseeth the end from the 
beginning," but steps toward the fulfilment of his 
transcendent, beneficent purposes of universal good. 

Horace Greeley, 1811-1872. 



jjtfcruarg 4. 



The command to love God, therefore, presupposes 
those attributes in him which win the sympathies of 
the soul, and draw from the purest fountains of our 
nature. It is misnaming things to call that religion 
which demands the repeal of these laws of sympathy, 
that we may find woe congenial, and tyranny lovely. 
It seems to us something worse than this to convert 
the system of Christ — which teaches us sentiments 
divine with charity and love (principles in which all 
holy spirits join), and visits us with hopes in which the 
best of earth have found their ever-present help — into 
an engine for provoking our self-love, or exciting our 
distrust of God. 

Rev. J. W. Putnam, 1823-1864. 



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jjtbruarg 3. 



Jrtruarg 4. 



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jfabruarg 5. 



Universalism is the loving of God supremely, as our 
Father, and the doing to all men in all things as we would 
they should do unto us. It proposes to make all who 
believe its doctrine, and carry that doctrine out in prac- 
tice, just what the honor and highest happiness of man 
require. It presents for human consideration truths and 
purposes in regard to the character and will of God, 
concerning the objects and certain result of the divine 
government, to which all moral beings are amenable, 
which are at once cheering and purifying, as it proposes 
to bring all intelligences into a state of holiness and 
happiness in the kingdom of immortality. And hence 
its tendency is to induce supreme love to God, as the 
divine Originator of that wonderful plan of grace mani- 
fested and exemplified in his Son, and which, while it 
admits of a just retribution to every sinner, according 
to his works, at the same time contemplates the final 
destruction of all sin and the salvation of all sinners. 

Rev. John Moore, 1797-1855. 

jfebtuatg 6. 

Christianity is pre-eminently a many-sided religion. 
As the sublimest ideal, it addresses our contemplative 
faculties, — hope and aspiration, — and completely satis- 
fies the soul. Internally it is right thought and affection : 
externally and eternally it is right conduct, righteous liv- 
ing. Our common humanity needs just these complex 
and divine inspirations. We all need to be aroused and 
chastened; to be quickened, yet subdued; to be im- 
pelled, yet guided; to be humbled, yet supported; and 
all these magnificent adaptations we find graciously pro- 
vided in our pure and broad Christianity. A Christian 
spirit most wisely directs all natural investigation, 
whether in the realm of matter, mind, or affection. 
Instead of antagonizing science, it reveals to science 
the hidden springs of the universe, and baptizes its 
" classified demonstrations " for the healing of the 
nations. And so we gladly discover in these marvel- 
lous adaptations of Christianity another strong argu- 
ment for universal redemption. 

Rev. P. Le Clerc Haskell, 1844-1875. 



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jfabruaru 6. 



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Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ seems to be much 

stronger than the creeds of men will allow is consistent 

with " sound orthodoxy." But we simply accept in 

good faith what he has himself declared, and what 

others have said of him and his mission. In plain and 

unmistakable language he said to his disciples, " If I 

be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto 

me." Paul says of him, " He must reign till he hath 

put all enemies under his feet." Our faith does not go 

beyond those plain assertions of the Scriptures : it finds 

full warrant in the declarations of many inspired 

teachers who spake with authority. We are only 

taking the Bible at its word, and simply believing what 

it plainly teaches. 

Rev. Sanford Preston Smith, 
Feb. 5, 1846- 

jMbrttarg 8. 

Every truly Christian prayer must be answered, every 
germ of Christian truth and consecration must bring 
forth its legitimate fruit. But it may be asked, "If 
God's purposes are so absolutely unchangeable, how 
can our prayers be answered ? " My friends, go out 
into the musical fields, and ask the blushing flowers 
why they every day look up so trustfully into the face 
of the sky. Do they expect to change the sun ? No ; 
but they understand — by a sort of vegetable instinct, I 
suppose — that the sun will change them. And it is 
because God is without "variableness or shadow of 
turning " that every earnest, soulful prayer must be 
answered. The prayer that is offered for the purpose 
of changing him may be unavailing; but the prayer 
that opens the soul before its God, as the flowers are 
opened to drink in the sunshine, can never fail. 

Rev. A. H. Laing, 1844- 



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jfrbruarg 9. 



They forget that God is dishonored when he con- 
fesses himself incapable of redeeming the souls of men 
whose Father he has proclaimed himself to be. In 
assuming fatherhood, he has assumed the duties of a 
father; and to destroy children because he can do 
nothing with them — to give up hope for them — is an 
idea I cannot connect with the Almighty Being who 
revealed himself in Jesus Christ. If one soul perishes 
forever, it is a failure : evil has won the day. 

*Rev. Stopford Brooke. 



Jebruarg TO. 



Universalists understand salvation to be deliverance 

from the control of wrong habits and principles, a 

purifying of the soul from all that is base and vile, 

a removal .of all the guilt and contaminations of sin, 

a plucking of the soul from that hell of darkness and 

guilt in which every one is plunged who gives himself 

up to sin ; and that, being thus renovated and pardoned, 

the soul is exalted to heaven. They mean, too, that 

whenever and wherever this takes place, whether in 

this world or the next, the soul enters heaven, or 

heaven enters the soul. 

# Rev. Darius Forbes. 



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If men applied half as much common sense to their 
theological investigations as they do to every other 
subject, they could not worship a God, who, having 
filled this world with millions of his children, would 
finally consign them all to eternal destruction, except 
a few who could be induced to believe in very difficult 
and doubtful explanations of prophecies handed down 
to us through the long lapse of ages. 

Lydia Maria Child, 1802- 



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It must be everybody or nobody. 

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-18 



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jFe&roarg 12. 



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jFebruarg 13. 

. . . Such, then, is the nature of punishment, 
conjoined inseparably with the transgression. How 
much better would it be for society, how much 
greater and more healthful would be the influence of 
Christianity, if this view of rewards and punishments 
could be generally exhibited in the pulpit, instead of 
putting off the consequences of our conduct to the dim 
and far-off future, and then clothe them with such 
improbabilities as to make the denunciations of Chris- 
tianity against sin inefficient and inoperative with most 
minds. The great and sole aim of the Christian pulpit 
should be to produce in men an abhorrence of vice 
and a love of virtue ; and this it can never accomplish 
until it dwells with more energy upon the immediate 
consequences of our conduct. 

" This teach me more than hell to shun, 
That more than heaven pursue." 

*Rev. S. P. Skinner, 18x0-1858. 

jfrbruarg 14. 



As we look over the world and see the sin, the 
sorrows, the strugglings and animosities that fill the 
world, and rend the nations, when we see everywhere 
what may be summed up and expressed in one word, 
" vanity/' that fills men's hearts, and gives them their 
motives, we shall, in some measure at least, feel like the 
apostle. When we look above and see that God's ways 
will at length bring order out of this chaos, the world 
delivered from this bondage of corruption shall be 
raised into the glorious light and liberty of the children 
of God, — when we see this result so clearly foreshad- 
owed in the ways of God to man, may we not join 
the apostle in exclaiming, " Oh the depth of the riches, 
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how 
unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past 
finding out " ? 

Rev. H. B. Smith, 1848- 



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— jMjruarg 15. 

That particular aspect of Universalism most attrac- 
tive to me is its presentation of the unity of the 
Universal. It is not simply All, but All in one. Not 
segregation, but union, is the underlying thought. Be- 
cause God is the common Father, therefore all men are 
brethren; because all men are brethren, therefore the 
obligation of common and equal love ; because of the 
universal obligation of the law of love, therefore all 
violations bring certain retribution; because the retri- 
butions of a common Father are remedial, therefore 
the final recovery or salvation of all men ; and because 
of the final salvation of all men, therefore the preserva- 
tion of the universal unity, — God all in all. All suc- 
cessful reforms, and all true philanthropy, whether in 
Church or State, and whether recognized or not, rest 
on this immovable basis. 

Rev. William Wallace Curry, 1824- 
Rev. W. W. Hooper, 1S53- 

jFrimtarg 16. 

It has been remarked that Christians, of whatever 
creed, have hope in the death of their children. How- 
ever tenacious they may be of a narrow and rigid creed 
which would consign an unconverted child to the 
regions of hopeless despair, yet when that uncon- 
verted though dearly loved one, without leaving any 
evidence of a saving change, is snatched away by death, 
and the fond parent is called to follow his lifeless 
remains to the silent grave, he has in the midst of his 
grief a hope that "it is well with the child.'* What 
gives him consolation, and speaks peace to his troubled 
spirit ? I answer, without the fear of contradiction, It 
is a confidence in the inherent, unchanging goodness 
and impartial mercy of the Lord our God. 

Rev. George Bates, Feb. 12, 1798-1876. 



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Jebruarg 17. 



More bitter far than all 
It was to know that love could change and die. 

Hush, for the ages call, 
"The love of God lives through eternity, 

And conquers all. " 



Still our place is kept, and it will wait, 

Ready for us to fill it, soon or late ; 

No star is ever lost we once have seen ; 

We always may be what we might have been ; 

Since good, though only thought, has life and breath, 

God's life can always be redeemed from death, 

And evil in its nature is decay, 

And any hour can blot it all away. 

Adelaide A. Procter, 1825-186 



Jebruarg 18. 



Contemplate Jesus Christ in all the course of his 
earthly ministry, and if the record is sure, if it is not an 
imposition on human credulity, a mockery of human 
hopes, an insult to human reason, and a violation of all 
the laws of historic development, nay, if Christ is to 
be believed at all, then God was in him as he was 
never in any other since the world began. And he was 
in him for the sublime and beneficent purpose men- 
tioned by St. Paul : " Having made peace by the blood 
of the cross, by him to reconcile all things unto him- 
self." The fulness of Christ means fulness of redemp- 
tion. And, if there be any force or truth in Scrip- 
ture, he must reign until he hath put all enemies under 
his feet, until he hath put down all rule, and all author- 
ity and power. In this glorious consummation he will 
exemplify the fulness of his saving power. 

Rev. Joseph Oberlin Skinner, 1816-1879. 



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Jebruarg 19. 



A belief in God as a universal Father, with a father's 
infinite love, wisdom, and power, is the great need of 
this age in lifting humanity out of the dark shadows 
of oppression, sin, and evil, and bringing about the 
happy day when all shall know the Lord, from the least 
to the greatest, and " peace on earth and good will to 
man shall become universal." It is this faith that must 
overcome the world, for it is the great want of the 
human soul, and should be preached to-day as in the 
days of Christ and the apostles. 

Rev. Joy Bishop, Feb. 12, 1815. 
Rev. George Messenger, 179S-1872. 



Jebruarg 20. 



Christianity is pre-eminently beautiful, rich in truth, 
and infinitely superior to all other religions, either ancient 
or modern. The soul-inspiring doctrine of universal 
salvation is rooted in the sublime truths, — the Father- 
hood of God, the authority of the Bible, and the divinity 
of Christ. In tones as sweet as the voice of " Eternal 
Goodness," it encourages and strengthens the blissful 
hope of redemption. 

In its idea of punishment, in its soothing pow r er, in 
the hopes it inspires, in the faith it encourages, in the 
sweet peace it imparts, and in the fact it makes the bed 
of change to the believer the gate to increasing glory, — 
it stands in the light that gleamed with the brightness of 
heaven upon the Mount of Transfiguration. It is emphati- 
cally the power of God unto salvation, and universal 
in its application. 

Rev. N. R. Wright, Feb. 8, 1810- 
Rev. Edward Ferris, 1777-1839. 



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Jtbruarg 20. 



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iFebruarg 21. 



But Thanksgiving Day is a time of glad re-unions, of 
joyous home-gatherings. From near and from afar, the 
children and grandchildren flock to the old home-nest. 
But often the joy is tinged with sadness. Some loved one 
is missing ; death has invaded the family circle, and there 
is a broken link. Alas ! ofttimes the faith entertained is 
not sufficient to fully comfort and sustain, and there is 
"an aching void the world can never fill." But when a 
faith abides that lays fast hold upon the hopes set before 
us, — faith in the eternal goodness, faith in the wisdom of 
God's plans, faith in the equity of his government over 
us, — then sorrow is changed to peaceful resignation, and 
firm belief that there cometh a glad time when there will 
be a re-union without alloy, a day of great rejoicing and 
thanksgiving — 

11 When all the race of man shall be 
With Jesus in the skies." 

Rev. Robert Newman John, 1835- 

— ■ jfabruarg 22. 



While ignorant of God, we have him not. The sab- 
bath invites us to the study of his character, and there- 
fore to the attainment of his knowledge, which will lead 
to love of him. It invites us to the story of the com- 
mon brotherhood of man, that we may love one another, 
and find that pure enjoyment which the faithful discharge 
of the kindly offices of love cannot fail to impart. In 
one word it invites us to the study and reception of the 
gospel, with all its sublime teachings, — concerning God, 
his character and will ; concerning Christ, the object of 
his mission and the certainty of its fulfilment ; concern- 
ing man, his nature, duties, and obligations, the relations 
he sustains to God, and his sure and certain "destiny 

in glory." 

Rev. Nathaniel Gunnison, 1811-1871. 
Rev. John E. Palmer, 1783-1873. 



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iMbruarg 22. 



6 5, 



jFe&ruarg 23. 

Christ will still remain the most perfect spiritual ex- 
pression of man's nature, permanently uplifted above the 
horizon of history until obscured by the greater light of 
some more august personality. And, till such personality 
appears, there is no danger of the decay and supersedure 
of the ministry and church, for want of a field and of 
ideas, with the certainty of a harvest of increasing good 
to mankind. Though all formulated creeds be driven 
to radical changes, the nature of man and the universal 
ideas of Christ remain. From these creeds a vaster 
growth and power will spring, and the ministry and 
church will take a still more beneficent, inevitable, and 
commanding part in educating and edifying the mental 
and moral life of the world. 

Rev. C. R. TENNEY, 1854- ReVl RlCHMOND FlsK > D - D -> l8 3 6 ~ 
Rev. S. C. BULKELEY, 1810-1884. 

jMbmarg 24. 

Hell is an evidence, therefore, of God's interest in the 
welfare of his children. Every smart of pain, every burn- 
ing of remorse, is a message direct from our Father, 
saying, " My child, you are doing wrong to yourself and 
others by your sinful courses, you are imperilling the 
welfare of many with your own; you must 'break off 
your sins by righteousness ; ' you must come up out 
of your degradation, however deep it may be, and go on 
your way .to heaven.'' Hence we say, love is inexorable, 
and will have its own. 

Universalists alone have grasped the significant fact 
that justice is the offspring of love, that rigorous retri- 
bution is applied under the direction of love for the 
recovery of the lost. Hell, to our apprehension, is sal- 
utary discipline, just as severe, and just as protracted 
as may be necessary to recall the sinner to himself, and 
awaken the penitent resolve to return in submission to 
his Father. Rev s Goodenough, Feb. 8, 1835- 

Rev. KlTTREDGE HAVEN, 179^-1877. 

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Jebruarg 25. 



Through many of these years, marked by varied ex- 
periences, I have been a believer in the doctrines as 
held by our beloved Church. 

It has ever been my great desire to live these doc- 
trines in all life's varied relations, so as to commend 
them to the earnest consideration and acceptance of 
mankind, believing in their great helpfulness in making 
mankind better and happier. As the years move on, and 
I near the border-line which divides the future from the 
present, I value and cherish our faith more and more ; 
and as I have lived in its blessedness, its peace, and sun- 
shine, found it the one thing needful at # all times, I am 
confident I shall find it the same to the end of mortal 
being, preparing the soul for its peaceful exit from 
time, filling it with joyful expectancy of a glorious life of 
immortality for all God's children. 

Mrs. C. Porter, 1827- 



jFebruatg 26. 



" The larger hope " is the staff on which men lean in 
the hour of trouble. It may be influential in making 
life brighter under ordinary conditions ; it must of 
necessity be the stay of man when the heart is bowed 
under any serious grief, or death invades the household. 
The touch of affliction — who has not seen it in the mute 
appeal of tear-stained eyes, in the clinging grasp of a 
tremulous hand, and in that silence so charged with 
mingled doubt and hope ? I have seen persons racked 
by grief, yet firm through faith, watching the death of 
the dearest hope, yet seeing in the promising future 
some compensation ; touching the lips of love as they 
lay in the jewelled casket, yet seeing as by vision that 
promised state where they retain all that is lovely, and 
wait like guardian watchers : and when I have seen 
this, I have blessed that faith whose keynote is the 
motto, " He doeth all things well." 

Rev. W. S. Vail, 185 1- . 



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I believe, then, in God, my Father. I feel in my 
heart that I have access to and communion with him, as 
Abraham and David had. Let us endeavor to walk with 
him as with our friend, step by step in our way of life. 
Let us feel, that like a good, wise father, he appreciates 
and loves good acts, and rewards them. He requires us 
to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly ; and 
may our hearts be set to obey him. As I could joyfully 
live with the best man I ever heard of, or with one who 
should combine all the best qualities of all the best men 
who ever lived, — Plato, Socrates, Moses, John, Paul, 
Fenelon, Howard, Ballou, Boyden, Lincoln, — a just, 
patient, humble society, whose wisdom and goodness 
would be so great as not to overbear me, but rather to 
bear me up, so could I joyfully live with him. I be- 
lieve in his divine Son, my Saviour, through whom I 
better know and love the Father, and am greatly helped 
and cheered in all the hopes and efforts for good. 

Rev. E. Fisher, D.D., Feb. 6, 1815-1879. 

Jebruarg 28. 



The world once thought that Christianity was a failure. 
When they saw Christ hung upon the cross, even the 
apostles thought their Master was defeated. But, while 
his enemies were rejoicing that the dangerous doctrines 
should disturb their peace no more, Christianitv was gath- 
ering new powers for the conflict ; and the very hour they 
thought to exterminate it from the world became the 
hour of its firm establishment and victory. From that 
dark and awful scene of crucifixion, it went forth to its 
conquest with an impulse which no earthly power could 
stay, and before which kings should bow, and sin and 
wrong should flee away ; foreseeing which, the dying 
Saviour could exclaim, " It is finished.'' And every mar- 
tyr to the cause has added new force in carrying out the 
great result. Hence Whittier justly said, " In the econo- 
my of God no effort put forth for the right cause fails 
of its effects. Through discords of sin and sorrow, pain 
and wrong, it rises, a deathless melody, to blend with the 
great harmony of a reconciled universe." 

Rev. John G. Bartholomew, D.D., 1834-1874. 

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tfebruarg 28. 



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Je&ruarg 29. 



While we are all conscious of punishment for every 
wrong act, we are also conscious that it is only corrective, 
that we may do better, as a patient submits to the knife 
of the surgeon in order to be restored to health. Thus 
will the process of purifying go on until the last wanderer 
is brought back to his Father's house, that we may be 
one with Christ, as he is one with the Father. 

Rev. T. W. Critchett, Feb. 26, 1845- 



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73 

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The stormy March is come at last, 
With winds, and clouds, and changing skies : 

T hear the rushing of the blast 
That through the snowy valley flies. 

Ah ! passing few are they who speak, 
Wild stormy month, in praise of thee ; 

Yet, though thy winds are loud and bleak, 
Thou art a welcome month to me. 

Thou bring ? st the hope of those calm skies, 
And that soft time of sunny showers. 

When the wide bloom on earth that lies 
Seems of a brighter world than ours. 

W. C. Bryant. 

Hail, snow, and vapor ; stormy wind fulfilling his word. — 
Ps. cxlviii. 8. 

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold 
not thine hand. — Eccl. xi. 6. 

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as 
showers that water the earth. — Ps. lxxii. 6. 

As we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear 
the image of the heavenly. — i Cor. xv. 49. 



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Looking at the world religiously, there never was a time 
when it has been more ready to receive and adopt the 
doctrines of the Universalist Church than it is to-day. 
Yet many of the old doctrines are retained, and the 
shadow of their substance still rests over many people, 
even while their hearts are calling for a liberal, comfort- 
ing faith. When they hear it preached, it does them good, 
for they desire a religion of hope and love. This being 
the case, there is yet plenty of work for our church, even 
in a theological point of view, and it is important that we 
do that work wisely and well. We must move forward. 
The church that does not have the aggressive spirit must 
and will die out. The church of the future must work : 
by all means let ours have its share in elevating humani- 
ty, and in furnishing it with a more blessed faith. 

Rev. William Augustus Start, 1837- 



JHarcf) 2. 



Universalism puts Adam at the foot of the ladder, and 
makes it the end and aim of every life to climb as far 
away from him as may be possible. " Forward unto per- 
fection," not backward to credulity, to childhood, " leav- 
ing behind the things of the past," we press forward to 
a nobler stature and a better life than the world has ever 
seen. 

The Universalist faith is in marked sympathy with the 

grand law that evolves the higher from the lower, — this 

law which has only fought its way to general acceptance 

in our own times. 

Rev. A. Gunnison, D.D., 1844. 



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fHarrf) 3. 



He waits for us, while, houseless things, 
We beat about with bruised wings 
On the dark floods and water springs, 

The ruined world, the desolate sea: 
With open windows from the prime, 
All night, all day, he waits sublime, 
Until the fulness of the time 

Decreed from his eternity. 

*Jean Incelow, 1830. 



ifflarrf) 4, 



God is love. Love is the chief source of the highest 
form of happiness, whether in itself or through its activi- 
ties and its products. In all his being and all his doing, 
how happy God must be ! Love is the supreme inspira- 
tion. With infinite resources, what wonders of benefi- 
cence God has done, will do ! Love is the greatest 
hunger of the heart. Out of this, God makes perpetual' 
appeal for the love of all capable of response — all souls. 
By the final refusal of one, must he forever famish ? Is 
he not rather now patient with hope, even assurance of 
universal love ? And what infinite felicity in store for 
him in the fruition of his hope, the experience of his 

expectation ! 

Rev. B. F. Bowi.es, 1824- 
Rev. S. J. MCMORRIS, 1799-1874. 



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fHarcfj 5. 

Shall Nature fill the hollows of her coarse rough flints 
with purple amethyst ; shall she, out of the grimy coal 
over which the shivering beggar warms himself, iorm the 
diamond that trembles on the forehead of a queen ; shall 
even man take the cast-off slag and worthless rubble of 
the furnace, and educe from it his most glowing and lus- 
trous dyes — and shall not God be able to make anything 
of his ruined souls ? . . . And if it would be wholly impos- 
sible for any wretch among us to be so remorseless as to 
doom bis deadliest enemy to an endless vengeance, are 
we to believe this of God ? Or shall we not rather believe 
as the wise woman of Tekoah said to David three thou- 
sand years ago, " We must needs die, and are as water 
spilt on the ground, and God does not take away life, but 
devises devices that the wanderer may not forever be 
expelled from him " (2 Sam. xiv. 14). 

Canon F. W. Farrar. 
Rev. Frank Evans, 1838-1879. 



iWarcfj 6. 



If the Christian Church was ever important in promot- 
ing the cause of pure religion and in binding man to man 
in brotherly friendship, it is now important. And, that it 
may exert its strongest and holiest influences upon our 
denomination and upon the world, every sincere believer 
in the great and glad faith should at once enroll himself 
within this church, and so live that he may honor and 
glorify it to the day of his death. 

Rev. J. H. Willis, 1807-1877. 



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UKartfj 7. 



Do we, while seeking thus to enforce the idea that we 
are to work out our own salvation, forget the divine as- 
sistance ? If the idea were put before us that we had a 
power independent of God, we should at once repudiate 
it, and confess that whatever qualities we had of virtue 
and goodness, they came from Him, who, as he has called 
us to be his soldiers, will help us to victory. It is only 
as we remember this that a bright and hopeful aspect can 
be imparted to our Christian life. We can find spirit and 
courage to grow in grace as we dwell on the promise that 
through the Father's love we shall come off more than 
conquerors. 

* Rev. A. G. Rogers. 



JHard) 8. 

In forgiving sinners, God does not remit the punish- 
ment which their sins deserve, but often uses that very 
punishment, which is administered in kindness, for the 
purpose of producing such repentance and forsaking of 
sin as is necessary to the enjoyment of forgiveness. He 
overpowers sinfulness by his own love. 

Rev. L. R. Paige, D.D., 1S02. 

All Christians trust that God will be all in a part of 
• the human race. At the present day most people believe 
that God will yet be all in most of humanity ; that a 
majority will be redeemed. We have the blessed assur- 
ance that he will be all in all. To be full of God is to 
be full of love, for God is love. To be delivered from 
all warring and bondage, to have all our thoughts pure 
and sinless, and all our desires tend upward, this is 
salvation ; this, and this alone, is heaven. 

Rev. Lewis C. Browne, 18 10- 
Rev. T. Strong, 1790-1870. 



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fHarcft 8. 



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— — JHarrfj 9. 

Can the soul of man ask for anything more than, or 
find anything superior to, the calm, implicit/^'/// i?i God, 
for which we are given such good foundation in our in- 
terpretations of his nature and character, as also of the 
nature and character of the government he exercises 
over the creatures of his hand ? The lessons learned 
by it are perfect in their kind, and cannot be overthrown 
by science or philosophy. Though he at times " moves 
in a mysterious way," yet, mid all the checkered scenes 
of earth-life, we may find "rest unto our souls" in the 
precious assurance that — 

" One adequate support 
For the calamities of mortal life 
Exists, one only }> — an assured belief 
That the procession of our fate, howe'er 
Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being 
Of infinite benevolence and power, 
Whose everlasting purposes embrace 
All accidents, converting them to good." 

Rev. Lotta D. Crosley, 1848- 

JHarcfj 10. 

" Our God is a consuming fire." It is not that the fire 
will burn us if we do not worship God, but that the fire 
will burn us until we worship thus, — yea, that will go on 
within us after all that is foreign to us has yielded to its 
force, no longer with pain and consuming, but as the 
highest consciousness of life, the presence of God. In 
the outer darkness, where the worst sinners dwell, God 
hath withdrawn himself, but not lost his hold. His face 
is turned away; but his hand is laid upon him still. His 
heart has ceased to beat into the man's heart; but he 
keeps him alive by his fire. And that fire will go search- 
ing and burning on in him, as in the highest saint 
who is not yet pure as he is pure. But at length, O 
God, wilt thou not cast death and hell into the lake 
of fire, even into thine own consuming self? Death 
shall then die everlastingly, and hell itself will pass away, 
and leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 

George MacDonald, 1S24- 
Rev. J. E. Davenport, 1821-1884. 

84 



JHarcJj 9. 



Jflarrf) 10. 



85 



fHard) 11. 



The Psalmist was right : " We spend our years as a 
tale that is told." Yet this life is precious, short as it 
is. We live it over a thousand times in our memories. 
And how the dark days — the days of sorrow and dis- 
appointment — seem to have dropped out, while the 
bright days of childhood, youth, and manhood, are 
fresh ! The years seem to grow shorter and shorter to 
the aged. As we look backward, it seems but a brief 
period ; but, as we look forward, eternity is before us. 
There are no clouds in the sky of the future, no disap- 
pointments, no sins, no sorrows. The sun of infinite 
love shines there. There the weary will find rest. 

Rev. S. A. Davis, 1810- 



fcrf) 12. 



The Christian religion is exhibited by Universalism 
in two striking phases, — the rational and the spiritual. 
In the former is a clear, logical presentation of her doc- 
trines, and in the latter a practical exemplification of 
them. In order to have the better part of man's nature 
quickened and cherished, there must be an accurate 
knowledge of what Deity proposes in the final destina- 
tion of his subject creature. When it is manifest that 
God is ever near, that he will never leave us nor forsake 
us, the soul has something of intrinsic and everlasting 
value to cling to. It must be a glorious truth to every 
soul to know and realize that our heavenly Father is ever 
near, watching our every thought and footstep, thus 
constantly enhancing the spiritual aspirations. It frees 
him from the terrors of a religion of gloom, and causes 
him to enter at once upon a happier and nobler life. 

Rev. J. P. MacLean. 1848- 



86 



fHartfj 11. 



JHatdj 12. 



87 



fHatcfj 13. 



Waiting, I will trust the Love 

That guards me through the darkest hours, 
And though my feet oft press the thorns 

That lie concealed 'neath sweetest flowers, 
I know his hand will surely guide 
My footsteps safe beyond the tide. 

Ellen E. Miles, March i, 1S35. 
Rev. Justin Gage, 1805-1875. 



fHartfr 14. 



" What shall separate us from the love of God ? " 
The inspired writer who asks this question virtually 
answers, Nothing. Hail, snow, cyclone, tornado, or 
earthquake may come, yet the divine care is ever over 
us. An affectionate Father reigns. As each month 
is best for its appointed season, so each life — as Miss 
Carey hints in one of her poems — is the best for him 
who lives it. A cheerful, loving heart, and a firm 
reliance on a Father's love, will make March as pleas- 
ant as June. " Sorrow may endure for the night ; but 
joy cometh in the morning.' , 

Rev. W. N. Barber, March 2. 1818- 



JHatcfj 13. 



iHatdj 14. 



_ — __ __ — 



i&arrfj 15. 



Life accords with its creed : therefore let its creed be 
high and noble. Memorize it, often recite it. Believe 
in God, in worship, in heroism, in saintship, in the 
reality, the preciousness, the infinite preciousness, of spir- 
itual growth and peace. Believe in love,, unadulterated, 
uncalculating, unwasting love ; in its pure ideals, its 
clear visions, its noble service, its high faith. Believe 
in the Beatitudes of Christ, in the blessedness that flows 
down upon the meek, the pure, the humble, the faithful, 
the devout. Having this faith, this experience, nothing 
better can be realized in time or in eternity. 

Rev. Thomas S. Lathrop, March 4, 1822- 



ittarri) 16. 



God's grace is the primal and universal force which 
lies behind and within the whole process of salvation, — 
behind our faith, our repentance, the forgiveness of our 
sins, our growth in knowledge, our works of love. 
Without it, we could do nothing and would be nothing. 
But this does not militate against the fact that each 
person must work out his own salvation. 

Rev. E. C. Sweetser, D.D., 1847- 

Rev. B. K. RUSS, 1838. 

Universalism affirms the absolute sovereignty of God, 
the supremacy of his will, the accomplishment of his 
purposes ; but it maintains that his sovereignty, his will, 
and his purposes are dominated by his love. It believes 
that his will to have all men saved, and come unto a 
knowledge of the truth, is sure to be realized, because 
back of that will are power and love. 

Rev. James Eastwood, 1829- 



90 



fHarcfj 15. 



fHarcfj 16. 



91 



fHard) 17. 



" No man hath ascended up to heaven save he that 
came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is 
in heaven" (St. John iii. 13). Leaning strongly on the 
New Testament without, the vigor of Universalism is 
from the Christ within. By our motto, while his feet 
trod earth, his eyes looked into heaven. Be himself 
ours, ours, too, will be his vision. If we live with him, 
we shall see with him, and from what our hearts know 
of him shall see with their eyes this chief-born of God, 
this image of the Invisible, this God manifest in the 
flesh, leading, if need be, through countless ages, lead- 
ing the last lost soul of man into the redemption of 
God the highest. 

Rev. Alexander G. Laurie, 1818- 

JHanfj 18. 



The human soul will not be satisfied with one world, 
any more than the body will with one dress. We can 
enjoy the present, only as we look to the future. It is 
the boast of materialism to enjoy this life in sweet con- 
tentment and pleasure ; yet memory will look backward, 
and hope forward, and immortality, like a star, rises 
between the fading lines of memory on the one side, 
and the gathering joys of hope On the other, and crowns 
the soul with an everlasting triumph. God weaves the 
pledge of a future life like a rainbow, over our horizon ; 
in its prismatic hues we see the deathless flowers that 
bloom in the w r orld's Eden, while under its shining 
archway we stand at the gate of heaven, and behold 
its reflected rays as they fall upon the sweet babe in the 
cradle, and creep tenderly as evening's shadow over age 
as it trembles by a coffin. 

Rev. Moses Henry Houghton, 

March 17, 1846- 



92 



JHatcfj V, 



fHarcfj 18. 



93 



- JHarcfj 19. 



Oh, yes, there is joy in sincerely believing, 

No heart that is faithless can dream of or know ; 
There is strength in the thought that our souls are 
receiving 

Such wealth as a Father alone can bestow. 
Then away with the dogma that sin is eternal, 

It dims the bright glow of Immanuers name ; 
It was not to build up a kingdom infernal 

That Jesus, the friend of the sorrowful, came. 

Sarah C. Edgarton Mayo, 

March 17, 1819-1849. 
Rev. Andrew Gregg, 1785-1875. 



Jflattfi 20. 

Show me sunlight that causes darkness ; show me 
heat that freezes plants ; show me love that delights 
in torture ; and then I will listen while you talk of 
our heavenly Father cursing forever a portion of his 
children. 

Rev. V. E. Tomlinson, 1862- 
Rev. James Vincent, 1845- 
Rev. Jonathan Wallace, M.D., 1784-1873. 
Rev. Charles Smith brown, 1804-1870. 



For Love is king and Hate must die, 
Since Love alone can reign supreme ; 

And from the face of Love must fly 
All Hate as a forgotten dream. 

Rev. C. S. Vincent, March 18, 1845- 



iflarrfj 19. 



fflatcf) 20. 



95 



jjtbruarg 21 



I believe, then, in God, my Father. I feel in my 
heart that I have access to and communion with him, as 
Abraham and David had. Let us endeavor to walk with 
him as with our friend, step by step in our way of life. 
Let us feel, that like a good, wise father, he appreciates 
and loves good acts, and rewards them. He requires us 
to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly ; and 
may our hearts be set to obey him. As I could joyfully 
live with the best man I ever heard of, or with one who 
should combine all the best qualities of all the best men 
who ever lived, — Plato, Socrates, Moses, John, Paul, 
Fenelon, Howard, Ballou, Boyden, Lincoln, — a just, 
patient, humble society, whose wisdom and goodness 
would be so great as not to overbear me, but rather to 
bear me up, so could I joyfully live with him. I be- 
lieve in his divine Son, my Saviour, through whom I 
better know and love the Father, and am greatly helped 
and cheered in all the hopes and efforts for good. 

Rev. E. Fisher, D.D., Feb. 6, 1815-1879. 

Jebruarrj 28. — 



The world once thought that Christianity was a failure. 
When they saw Christ hung upon the cross, even the 
apostles thought their Master was defeated. But, while 
his enemies were rejoicing that the dangerous doctrines 
should disturb their peace no more, Christianity was gath- 
ering new powers for the conflict ; and the very hour they 
thought to exterminate it from the world became the 
hour of its firm establishment and victory. From that 
dark and awful scene of crucifixion, it went forth to its 
conquest with an impulse which no earthly power could 
stay, and before which kings should bow, and sin and 
wrong should flee away ; foreseeing which, the dying 
Saviour could exclaim, " It is finished." And every mar- 
tyr to the cause has added new force in carrying out the 
great result. Hence Whittier justly said, " In the econo- 
my of God no effort put forth for the right cause fails 
of its effects. Through discords of sin and sorrow, pain 
and wrong, it rises, a deathless melody, to blend with the 
great harmony of a reconciled universe." 

Rev. John G. Bartholomew, D.D., 1834-1874. 



jfcbrttarg 21 



iMbruarg 28. 



71 



jfabtuatg 29. 



While we are all conscious of punishment for every 
wrong act, we are also conscious that it is only corrective, 
that we may do better, as a patient submits to the knife 
of the surgeon in order to be restored to health. Thus 
will the process of purifying go on until the last wanderer 
is brought back to his Father's house, that we may be 
one with Christ, as he is one with the Father. 

Rev. T. W. Critchett, Feb. 26, 1845- 



72 



jFebruarg 29. 



73 

i 



£$atcf). 



The stormy March is come at last, 
With winds, and clouds, and changing skies : 

T hear the rushing of the blast 
That through the snowy valley flies. 

Ah ! passing few are they who speak, 
Wild stormy month, in praise of thee ; 

Yet, though thy winds are loud and bleak, 
Thou art a welcome month to me. 

Thou bring'st the hope of those calm skies, 
And that soft time of sunny showers. 

When the wide bloom on earth that lies 
Seems of a brighter world than ours. 

\V. C. Bryant. 

Hail, snow, and vapor; stormy wind fulfilling his word. — 
Ps. cxlviii. 8. 

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold 
not thine hand. — Eccl. xi. 6. 

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as 
showers that water the earth. — Ps. lxxii. 6. 

As we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear 
the image of the heavenly. — i Cor. xv. 49. 



75 



jWatcfj l. 



Looking at the world religiously, there never was a time 
when it has been more ready to receive and adopt the 
doctrines of the Universalist Church than it is to-day. 
Yet many of the old doctrines are retained, and the 
shadow of their substance still rests over many people, 
even while their hearts are calling for a liberal, comfort- 
ing faith. When they hear it preached, it does them good, 
for they desire a religion of hope and love. This being 
the case, there is yet plenty of work for our church, even 
in a theological point of view, and it is important that we 
do that work wisely and well. We must move forward. 
The church that does not have the aggressive spirit must 
and will die out. The church of the future must work : 
by all means let ours have its share in elevating humani- 
ty, and in furnishing it with a more blessed faith. 

Rev. William Augustus Start, 1837- 



fccfj 2. 



Universalism puts Adam at the foot of the ladder, and 
makes it the end and aim of every life to climb as far 
away from him as may be possible. " Forward unto per- 
fection,'' not backward to credulity, to childhood, " leav- 
ing behind the things of the past," we press forward to 
a nobler stature and a better life than the world has ever 



The Universalist faith is in marked sympathy with the 

grand law that evolves the higher from the lower, — this 

law which has only fought its way to general acceptance 

in our own times. 

Rev. A. Gunnison, D.D., 1844. 



76 



fHarcir 1. 



JWarcfi 2. 



77 



Jflatrf) 3. 



He waits for us, while, houseless things, 
We beat about with bruised wings 
On the dark floods and water springs, 

The ruined world, the desolate sea: 
With open windows from the prime, 
All night, all day, he waits sublime, 
Until the fulness of the time 

Decreed from his eternity. 

*Jean Ingelow, 1830. 



JHarrf) 4. 



God is love. Love is the chief source of the highest 
form of happiness, whether in itself or through its activi- 
ties and its products. In all his being and all his doing, 
how happy God must be ! Love is the supreme inspira- 
tion. With infinite resources, what wonders of benefi- 
cence God has done, will do ! Love is the greatest 
hunger of the heart. Out of this, God makes perpetual 
appeal for the love of all capable of response — all souls. 
By the final refusal of one, must he forever famish ? Is 
he not rather now patient with hope, even assurance of 
universal love ? And what infinite felicity in store for 
him in the fruition of his hope, the experience of his 

expectation ! 

Rev. B. F. Bowles, 1824- 

Rev. S. J. MCMORRIS, 1799-1874. 



78 



fHatrfj 3. 



fHatrij 4. 



79 



Jflarcfj 5. 

Shall Nature fill the hollows of her coarse rough flints 
with purple amethyst ; shall she, out of the grimy coal 
over which the shivering beggar warms himself, form the 
diamond that trembles on the forehead of a queen ; shall 
even man take the cast-off slag and worthless rubble of 
the furnace, and educe from it his most glowing and lus- 
trous dyes — and shall not God be able to make anything 
of his ruined souls ? . . . And if it would be wholly impos- 
sible for any wretch among us to be so remorseless as to 
doom his deadliest enemy to an endless vengeance, are 
we to believe this of God ? Or shall we not rather believe 
as the wise woman of Tekoah said to David three thou- 
sand years ago, " We must needs die, and are as water 
spilt on the ground, and God does not take away life, but 
devises devices that the wanderer may not forever be 
expelled from him " (2 Sam. xiv. 14). 

Canon F. W. Farrar. 
Rev. Frank Evans, 1S38-1879. 

iiHarrfj 6. — 



If the Christian Church was ever important in promot- 
ing the cause of pure religion and in binding man to man 
in brotherly friendship, it is now important. And, that it 
may exert its strongest and holiest influences upon our 
denomination and upon the w r orld, every sincere believer 
in the great and glad faith should at once enroll himself 
within this church, and so live that he may honor and 
glorify it to the day of his death. 

Rev. J. H. Willis, 1807-1877. 



80 



fHardj 5. 



fHarrij 6. 



81 



JHatcfj 7. 



Do we, while seeking thus to enforce the idea that we 
are to work out our own salvation, forget the divine as- 
sistance ? If the idea were put before us that we had a 
power independent of God, we should at once repudiate 
it, and confess that whatever qualities we had of virtue 
and goodness, they came from Him, who, as he has called 
us to be his soldiers, will help us to victory. It is only 
as we remember this that a bright and hopeful aspect can 
be imparted to our Christian life. We can find spirit and 
courage to grow in grace as we dwell on the promise that 
through the Father's love we shall come off more than 
conquerors. 

* Rev. A. G. Rogers. 



fHarrf) 8. 

In forgiving sinners, God does not remit the punish- 
ment which their sins deserve, but often uses that very 
punishment, which is administered in kindness, for the 
purpose of producing such repentance and forsaking of 
sin as is necessary to the enjoyment of forgiveness. He 
overpowers sinfulness by his own love. 

Rev. L. R. Paige, D.D., 1802. 

All Christians trust that God will be all in a part of 
• the human race. At the present day most people believe 
that God will yet be all in most of humanity ; that a 
majority will be redeemed. We have the blessed assur- 
ance that he will be all in all. To be full of God is to 
be full of love, for God is love. To be delivered from 
all warring and bondage, to have all our thoughts pure 
and sinless, and all our desires tend upward, this is 
salvation ; this, and this alone, is heaven. 

Rev. Lewis C. Browne, 1810- 
Rev. T. Strong, 1790-1870. 



iWarcfj 7. 



JHatcfj 8. 



*3 



IHarcf) 9. 



Can the soul of man ask for anything more than, or 
find anything superior to, the calm, implicit fait /i in God, 
for which we are given such good foundation in our in- 
terpretations of his nature and character, as also of the 
nature and character of the government he exercises 
over the creatures of his hand ? The lessons learned 
by it are perfect in their kind, and cannot be overthrown 
by science or philosophy. Though he at times "moves 
in a mysterious way," yet, mid all the checkered scenes 
of earth-life, we may find " rest unto our souls " in the 
precious assurance that — 

" One adequate support 
For the calamities of mortal life 
Exists, one only, — an assured belief 
That the procession of our fate, howe'er 
Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being 
Of infinite benevolence and power, 
Whose everlasting purposes embrace 
All accidents, converting them to good." 

Rev. Lotta D. Crosley, 1848- 

fflarrf) 10. 

" Our God is a consuming fire." It is not that the fire 
will burn us if we do not worship God, but that the fire 
will burn us until we worship thus, — yea, that will go on 
within us after all that is foreign to us has yielded to its 
force, no longer with pain and consuming, but as the 
highest consciousness of life, the presence of God. In 
the outer darkness, where the worst sinners dwell, God 
hath withdrawn himself, but not lost his hold. His face 
is turned away; but his hand is laid upon him still. His 
heart has ceased to beat into the man's heart; but he 
keeps him alive by his fire. And that fire will go search- 
ing and burning on in him, as in the highest saint 
who is not yet pure as he is pure. But at length, O 
God, wilt thou not cast death and hell into the lake 
of fire, even into thine own consuming self? Death 
shall then die everlastingly, and hell itself will pass away, 
and leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 



Rev. J. E. DAVENPORT, 1821-1884. 



George MacDonald, 1S24- 



84 



iJHatcfj 9. 



fHarrfj 10. 



JHarrfj 11. 



The Psalmist was right : " We spend our years as a 
tale that is told." Yet this life is precious, short as it 
is. We live it over a thousand times in our memories. 
And how the dark days — the days of sorrow and dis- 
appointment — seem to have dropped out, while the 
bright days of childhood, youth, and manhood, are 
fresh ! The years seem to grow shorter and shorter to 
the aged. As we look backward, it seems but a brief 
period ; but, as we look forward, eternity is before us. 
There are no clouds in the sky of the future, no disap- 
pointments, no sins, no sorrows. The sun of infinite 
love shines there. There the weary will find rest. 

Rev. S. A. Davis, 1810- 



fHatrfj 12. 



The Christian religion is exhibited by Universalism 
in two striking phases, — the rational and the spiritual. 
In the former is a clear, logical presentation of her doc- 
trines, and in the latter a practical exemplification of 
them. In order to have the better part of man's nature 
quickened and cherished, there must be an accurate 
knowledge of what Deity proposes in the final destina- 
tion of his subject creature. When it is manifest that 
God is ever near, that he will never leave us nor forsake 
us, the soul has something of intrinsic and everlasting 
value to cling to. It must be a glorious truth to every 
soul to know and realize that our heavenly Father is ever 
near, watching our every thought and footstep, thus 
constantly enhancing the spiritual aspirations. It frees 
him from the terrors of a religion of gloom, and causes 
him to enter at once upon a happier and nobler life. 

Rev. J. P. MacLean, 1848- 



86 



iHartf) 11. 



iHartfj 12. 



87 



fflwuft 13. 



Waiting, I will trust the Love 

That guards me through the darkest hours, 
And though my fQtt oft press the thorns 

That lie concealed 'neath sweetest flowers, 
I know his hand will surely guide 
My footsteps safe beyond the tide. 

Ellen E. Miles, March i, 1S35 
Rev. Justin Gage, 1805-1875. 



fflatcfj 14. 



" What shall separate us from the love of God ? " 
The inspired writer who asks this question virtually 
answers, Nothing. Hail, snow, cyclone, tornado, or 
earthquake may come, yet the divine care is ever over 
us. An affectionate Father reigns. As each month 
is best for its appointed season, so each life — as Miss 
Carey hints in one of her poems — is the best for him 
who lives it. A cheerful, loving heart, and a firm 
reliance on a Father's love, will make March as pleas- 
ant as June. " Sorrow may endure for the night ; but 
joy cometh in the morning. " 

Rev. W. N. Barber, March 2, 1818- 



iflarcfj 13. 



fflatcfj 14. 



iJHarrfj 15. 



Life accords with its creed : therefore let its creed be 
high and noble. Memorize it, often recite it. Believe 
in God, in worship, in heroism, in saintship, in the 
reality, the preciousness, the infinite preciousness, of spir- 
itual growth and peace. Believe in love,, unadulterated, 
uncalculating, unwasting love ; in its pure ideals, its 
clear visions, its noble service, its high faith. Believe 
in the Beatitudes of Christ, in the blessedness that flows 
down upon the meek, the pure, the humble, the faithful, 
the devout. Having this faith, this experience, nothing 
better can be realized in time or in eternity. 

Rev. Thomas S. Lathrop, March 4, 1822- 



JHarcf) 16. 



God's grace is the primal and universal force which 

lies behind and within the whole process of salvation, — 

behind our faith, our repentance, the forgiveness of our 

sins, our growth in knowledge, our works of love. 

Without it, we could do nothing and would be nothing. 

But this does not militate against the fact that each 

person must work out his own salvation. 

Rev. E, C. Sweetser, D.D., 1847- 
Rev. B. K. RUSS, 1838. 

Universalism affirms the absolute sovereignty of God, 
the supremacy of his will, the accomplishment of his 
purposes ; but it maintains that his sovereignty, his will, 
and his purposes are dominated by his love. It believes 
that his will to have all men saved, and come unto a 
knowledge of the truth, is sure to be realized, because 
back of that will are power and love. 

Rev. James Eastwood, 1829- 



90 



jjHard) 15. 



fHarrij 16. 



91 



fflard) 17. 



" No man hath ascended up to heaven save he that 
came down from heaven, even the wSon of man which is 
in heaven" (St. John iii. 13). Leaning strongly on the 
New Testament without, the vigor of Universalism is 
from the Christ within. By our motto, while his feet 
trod earth, his eyes looked into heaven. Be himself 
ours, ours, too, will be his vision. If we live with him, 
we shall see with him, and from what our hearts know 
of him shall see with their eyes this chief-born of God, 
this image of the Invisible, this God manifest in the 
flesh, leading, if need be, through countless ages, lead- 
ing the last lost soul of man into the redemption of 
God the highest. 

Rev. Alexander G. Laurie, 1818- 



Mmh 18. — 

The human soul will not be satisfied with one world, 
any more than the body will with one dress. We can 
enjoy the present, only as we look to the future. It is 
the boast of materialism to enjoy this life in sweet con- 
tentment and pleasure ; yet memory will look backward, 
and hope forward, and immortality, like a star, rises 
between the fading lines of memory on the one side, 
and the gathering joys of hope On the other, and crowns 
the soul with an everlasting triumph. God weaves the 
pledge of a future life like a rainbow, over our horizon ; 
in its prismatic hues we see the deathless flowers that 
bloom in the world's Eden, while under its shining 
archway we stand at the gate of heaven, and behold 
its reflected rays as they fall upon the sweet babe in the 
cradle, and creep tenderly as evening's shadow over age 
as it trembles by a coffin. 

Rev. Moses Henry Houghton, 

March 17, 1846- 



iflarrf) V> 



iflarcfj 18. 



93 



JHarrfj 19. 



Oh, yes, there is joy in sincerely believing, 

No heart that is faithless can dream of or know ; 
There is strength in the thought that our souls are 
receiving 

Such wealth as a Father alone can bestow. 
Then away with the dogma that sin is eternal, 

It dims the bright glow of Immanuers name ; 
It was not to build up a kingdom infernal 

That Jesus, the friend of the sorrowful, came. 

Sarah C. Edgarton Mayo, 

March 17, 1819-1849. 
Rev. Andrew Gregg, 1785-1875. 



iKarcf) 20. 

Show me sunlight that causes darkness ; show me 
heat that freezes plants ; show me love that delights 
in torture ; and then I will listen while you talk of 
our heavenly Father cursing forever a portion of his 
children. 

Rev. V. E. Tomlinson, 1862- 
Rev. James Vincent, 1845- 
Rev. Jonathan Wallace, M.D., 1784-1873. 
Rev. Charles Smith Brown, 1804-1870. 



For Love is king and Hate must die, 
Since Love alone can reign supreme ; 

And from the face of Love must fly 
All Hate as a forgotten dream. 

Rev. C. S. Vincent, March 18, 1845- 



94 



iHarrfj 19. 



fflartf) 20. 



95 



JHatcfj 21. 



Our God is love, and he will save 

All souls from sin, 

And they shall win 

The victory over the dark grave ; 

His punishments are just and right, 

Leading the soul through pain to light. 

The winter's snow 

Takes long to go ; 

But underneath the flowers wait 

All patiently, though spring be late. 

Wait thou his time, wait thou his way ; 

To-morrow will explain to-day. 

Rev. Edwin J. Chaffee, 
March 19, 1850- 

JKarcij 22. 



The Father proposes remedy, not destruction. His 
merciful plan is to heal, not destroy. Everything in 
God's moral government, and everything in human ex- 
perience, sustains this grand idea. I offend some moral 
law, I trifle with purity, or integrity, or justice ; and the 
shame of a blackened reputation, and the pain of a re- 
buking conscience, come upon me as the result. Bitter 
and overwhelming as these may be, they come not, after 
all, to crush me, to destroy me because I have sinned, 
but the rather to teach me by severe experience that 
honor and happiness and safety and life lie along the 
track of obedience to God's moral laws. The one su- 
preme object of all penalty, both human and divine, is 
to prevent sin, and to hold us in our living to the path 
of conformity and obedience and wisdom. 

Rev. Lyman D. Boynton, 
March 19- 
Rev. A. C. Cleverly, 1807-1871. 



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- JHatcf) 21. 



iSattlj 22. 



97 



Jflarrf} 23. 



It is the only faith ever cherished by man that is 
complete, and entirely satisfying to the Christian heart, 
harmonizing with the infinite perfections of God, the 
ever-living and all-loving Father of all mankind; embra- 
cing Christ as a perfect Saviour, in whom all fulness 
dwells, crowning him Lord of all ; satisfying the fondest 
anticipations of the angels in heaven, who earnestly de- 
sire to look into the glorious work of the world's salva- 
tion, and filling the souls of believers with unspeakable 
joy in rapt contemplation and blissful assurance of the 
ultimate fulfilment of God's eternal purpose in man's 
creation, — the final accomplishment of Messiah's mis- 
sion, the purity and immortal blessedness of all the 
human family. 

Rev. S. P. Carlton, 1816- 



iHarcl) 24. 



Universalism as hitherto expounded and applied is 
without doubt incomplete and faulty. It will be better 
understood and more consistently set forth. But its 
seed-thought — that God is the eternal Father of man- 
kind, and that right and not wrong, good and not evil, 
happiness and not misery, are the sure outcome of his 
creation and providence — is God's own thought, and is 
as sure of the whole religious field erelong as noon is to 
follow dawn. . . . But whatever this church is to do or 
become as an organization, one thing, I think, is clear, 
it stands for the fullest and most rational gospel that the 
human mind has ever been invited to examine, or the 

human heart to enjoy. 

Rev. I. M. Atwood, D.D., 1S38- 



98 



jHarcfj 23. 



Maui) 24. 



99 



JHatrfj 25. 

God has kept his word, and been true to holiness in 
all his dealings with sinners. He hates sin, and he re- 
sists and punishes it ; and by an active and benevolent 
providence he has wrought to save sinners, to make an 
end of sinning, and to bring men to virtue and peace 
with God. So much we may know of the divine pro- 
cedure in relation to sin and sinners. God is hostile to 
sin : he has no purposes to serve by it, never gave his 
consent to it, forbade it at the first, and has steadfastly 
resisted it ever since ; and he has assured us that he 
can never accept it, nor become reconciled to it. All 
this means that there shall be an end of it in the moral 
universe. God's power, wisdom, goodness, and holiness 

are all pledges of this result. 

Rev. A. G. Gaines, D.D., 
March 19, 1S27- 

JHatri) 26. 



Considering one's self a traveller to eternity, soon to 
take flight from all these scenes of littleness and imper- 
fection, and to expatiate over unbounded territories, to 
mingle with higher intelligences, and engage in loftier 
occupations, u to rise in science as in bliss, initiate in 
the secrets of the skies," — these are thoughts which 
" make man man." They indisputably beget a higher 
taste, even in this world, for those occupations of the 
intellect and the affections which are to constitute our 
state and our happiness hereafter. 

Rev. W. M. Fernald, March 21, 1813-1873. 
Rev. E. W. Preble, 1844- 

Rev. E. CARPENTER, 1794-1879. 



IOO 



iHarcfj 25. 



fHarrfj 26. 



JIHarrf) 27. 



There is an infinite and perfect Being above me, who 
is God and Father of all. He loves me with an undying 
affection. I know that without him I could not have ex- 
isted. I know that all the blessings which I enjoy come 
from his kindness ; and I know, too, that he will raise 
me to an immortal life, just as I know that I would do it 
for my own dear child, if I had the ability. 

Rev. M. Ballou, March 25, 1811-1879. 

Rev. G. W. Whitney, 1843-1881. 
Rev. F. W. SPRAGUE, 1857- 



JHarrfj 28. 



Universalism in its doctrinal truth and practical mani- 
festation is the gospel of Christ in its divinest essence. 
It is the fatherhood of God in a diviner relationship than 
the human mind can really conceive, and sweeter in 
spirit than human sentiment can fully enjoy until the 
soul passes over into the " beautiful by and by." Its ten- 
dency, even amid the temptations, sins, sorrows, and 
trials of material life, is to benefit without dread, bless 
without fear, comfort in the hour of severest affliction, 
and tends to the glorifying of God upon earth. 

Universalism to me is but the promises of God ful- 
filled, the gospel of Christ perfectly demonstrated in 
righteousness of life and the overcoming of evil with 
good, both in time and eternity. This is what the world 
needs to know and believe, that the soul of man may 
be both holy and happy now and forever. 

Rev. Benjamin* Brunning, 1821- 



fHarrfj 27. 



JHarrf) 28. 



103 



ijfiardj 29. 



Blest Jesus, take me, I am thine ! 

The veil is rent apart : 
Won by such graciousness divine, 

My refuge is thy heart, 
Where I can rest upon thy love, 

Through cold and storm and night, 
And trust God's righteousness to prove 

In happiness and light. 

MinnieS. Davis, March 25, 1S35- 



JHarcfj 30. 



My hope shines brighter and brighter. I die in the 
hope of the glory of God. — Dying Words. 

Rev. Thomas Potter, March 25, -1790. 



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if&arcf) 29. 



Mwtf) 30. 



l °5 



iiHarrfj 31. 



One of the greatest beauties of the Universalist faith 
is the idea of completeness. Our glorious faith teaches 
us to look forward to the time when the earnest and 
hearty wish of every good man shall be perfectly satis- 
fied. The structure will not be incomplete when the 
work of God is finished. 

Evil and sin, it is true, are all too abundant in this 
world, they are matters of the commonest observation in 
our daily life, and God sent his only-begotten Son into 
the world, that the human race through him might be 
freed from the bondage of sin and consequent misery; 
and every good man desires that this work shall be per- 
fect and complete. Much more, then, does our heavenly 
Father desire it, as he is infinitely superior to us in 
goodness. He will never be satisfied until the last one of 
his erring and sinful children has been brought into the 
fold of the Good Shepherd, and made holy and happy. 
When there shall be no missing link in the chain, and 
not until the last child of God has been thus redeemed, 
will it be possible for any of his children to be entirely 
happy. 

Rev. John Julius Weeks, March 29, 1S50- 

Rev. A. B. HERVEY, iC :9 - 



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JHatdj 31. 



107 



%#nl 



When the warm sun, that brings 
Seedtime and harvest, has returned again, 
5 Tis sweet to visit the still wood, where springs 

The first flower of the plain. 

I love the season well, 
When forest-glades are teeming with bright forms, 
Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell 

The coming-on of storms. 

Sweet April ! Many a thought 
. . Is wedded unto thee as hearts are wed ; 

Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, 
Life's golden fruit is shed. 

H. W. Longfellow. 

The winter is past, the rain is over and gone ; 

The flowers appear on the earth ; 

The time of the singing of birds is come, 

And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. 

Cant. ii. u, 12. 

He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord God will 
wipe away tears from off all faces. — Isa. xxv. 8. 



109 
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apni i. 



Love is the only passion which in the nature of things 
we can carry with us into another world, and it is fit to be 
prolonged, intensified, glorified forever. It is the senti- 
ment which we share with God, and by which we live in 
him, and he in us. All its beautiful tenderness, its noble 
self-forge tfulness, its pure and ineffable delight, are the 
rays of God's sun of love reflected in our souls. 

Is all this to end in two poor heaps of silent dust de- 
caying slowly in their coffins side by side in the vault ? 
If so, let us have done with prating of any faith in heaven 
or earth. We are mocked by a fiend. Mephistopheles 
is on the throne of the universe. 

* Frances Power Cobbe- 
Rev. E. Wellington, 1801-1873. 



aprtl 2. 



So is death to us. Its power extends only to the 
body, the house in which we dwell, crumbling it to its 
kindred dust. The spirit, mind, the conscious essence 
that constitutes its, — call it by what name you will, — so 
mighty in thought, so far-reaching and comprehensive 
in its powers, that knocks at the door of the council- 
chamber of the King of kings — this is more than gross, 
senseless matter, more than dust that returns to the earth 
as it was. It is an emanation from God himself, the off- 
spring of Infinite Intelligence, a " partaker of the divine 
nature,' ' and is as immortal as its eternal Parent, and can 
never see death. 

Rev. R. S. Pope, 1809-1882. 



no 



Spril 3. 



In the issues of God's dispensations there can be no 
permanent ill. He is absolutely good. Of him are all 
things, through him are all things, and to him all things 
tend. When the goal is attained, all will be well. When 
our visions are unsealed by the life immortal, we shall 
perceive that what our finite sense termed ill in this life 
was but a necessary part of the great and wonderful 
plan of human redemption. 

Rev. A. J. Patterson, D.D., 1827- 
E. R. B. Waldo. 



Spril 4. 



I can prove with the clearness of light, in theory, that, 
upon all the known laws and principles of the human 
mind, Universalism is superior to any other system in its 
moral tendency. But after all it is better to do so prac- 
tically. Let us live the doctrine we profess, and we shall 
demonstrate the fact beyond all controversy. Bigotry 
may resist the force of evidence, and sophistry may 
evade the most cogent reasoning ; but there is a silent 
power in virtue that nothing can withstand. 

Rev. I. D. Williamson, D.D., 1807-1876. 

Rev. H. F. BALLOU, 1799-1881. 



3prft 5. _ 

Thus the Universalist idea meets every test by which 
a form of religious philosophy must be tried. It quails 
not under the application of the laws of thought. It 
answers the severest demands of the conscience, and 
awakens a welcome response in the moral instincts of the 
human heart. It is humane, charged with the tenderest 
charity and the broadest philanthropy. It is permanent 
and durable as the substance of truth and the nature of 
God - Rev. E. H. Capen, D.D., 1838- 

If there be a hope more grand, beautiful, or sublime 
than this, it has never been read to me in history, sung 
to me in poetry, nor whispered by angels in my sweetest 
dreams. He who sincerely believes this doctrine can 
die as peacefully " as one who wraps the drapery of his 
couch around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 

Rev. IRA ADAMS, 1841-1869. ReV - J' SHRIGLEY, 1814- 

Rev. William Tohxson, 1801-1879. 
Rev. George N. Cox, 1787-1879. 

aptil 6. 

All men, the wicked as well as the good, are children 
of God. They are his children by creation. As St. 
John declares, " All things were made by him, and with- 
out him was not anything made that was made." This 
text affirms more than we are apt to think. It affirms that 
God made us, and made us what we are, not merely in 
respect to body, but also mind, spirit, ay, and moral 
character. 

Rev. W. S. Perkins, April 5, 1854- 

Jesus is himself a revelation of God to man. " In 
him the word " — the wisdom, truth, and love of God — 
" was made flesh, and dwelt among men." Jesus shows 
us the Father. We find in him a total absence of every 
spirit that can hurt and destroy, and a presence and ful- 
ness of all that can enrich and save. The love of God 
revealed in Jesus Christ makes .us confident of endless 
good to every soul. 

Rev. C. A. Bradley, 1822- 
Rev.-s. S. Fletcher, 1820-1884. 

114 



gprtl 7. 

How glorious the result of the Saviour's mission ! No 
subject of reflection can equal it for the grandeur of its 
theme and the blessings it involves to the race. By its 
view of man's assimilation in thought, feeling, and act, 
to the will and wishes of God and his dear Son, and 
consequently of the swallowing-up of evil in the bound- 
less sea of love and purity, it excites brilliant hope, such 
as makes the darkest cloud of sorrow beautiful and prom- 
ising. Its contemplation, and familiarity with it, excite 
the moral powers, as contemplation of the conduct of 
good men excites benevolence to action. For while tra- 
cing the wondrous love and mercy of God, and the intense 
devotion of the Saviour, we become impressed with the 
great blessings they have showered and will continue to 
shower upon us, and grow into that state of being which 
shows that the goodness of God leads us to repentance. 

Rev. G. W. Montgomery, D.D., April 6, 1810- 

- — — — aprtl 8. 



'Twas but a whispered tone 

Of friendly warning given, 
But yet it had a power to lead 

An erring soul to heaven. 
Well would it be for earth, 

If mid its grief and sin 
There were more faithful love to warn, 

More patient hope to win. 

Julia A. Fletcher Carney, 
April 6, 1823- 
Rev. Thomas Jones, 1763- 



Il6 



april 9. 

Life, life ! 't is singing in the rills, 

And piping in the meadows, 
'Tis bursting from the gray old trees 

That cast their ghostly shadows ; 
The bluebirds and the robins now 

Awaken sweet reflection ; 
All things are typical this morn 

Of life and resurrection : 
I cannot tune my heart to woe 

In such a world of glory, 
When every year repeats anew 

The gospel's gracious story. 

Mrs. E. A. Bacon Lathrop, 1S16- 
Rev. John Nichols. 1828-1868. 
Rev. Jonathan Shepard, 1792-1878. 

april 10. 



And in that world 
Where all the air is like the breath of peace. 
Where earth's wild tumult and its passions cease, 
Where all the sorrows we have known below 
Shall into pleasure-blossoms bud and blow, 
Where bonds are broken, and where barriers fall, 
Where heart hears heart, and soul to soul doth call, 
Where speech is true, where all things fair shall blend, 
On some fair morning shall I find thee, friend. 

Rev. L. F. W. Gillette, April 8, 1827- 



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april 9. - 




Spri'l 11, 



Since the birth of Christianity its success has depended 
upon the amount of the missionary spirit possessed by 
those who have been leaders, and others who have caught 
the spirit from them. It has not always been under an 
organized form of missionary effort ; but the work has 
been accomplished by that spirit. The birthplace of our 
first missionary was in Judaea: from that day on, the 
missionary spirit has been the world's civilizer, and no 
one among us ought to be loath to obey the divine com- 
mand, " Go preach the gospel to every creature. " 

Mrs. E. R. Hanson, 1825- 
Rev. J. H. Blackford, 1843- 



aprtl 12. 



Oh, yes, there's a bright clime, a bright world of joy, 
Where love's blossoms fade not, nor death can destroy, 
Where the pure and the good their sweet influence impart: 
In the friendship of heaven is the home of the heart. 
There the sad heart will rest from its sorrow and pain, 
And the glad heart its blissful emotions retain ; 
There the cold heart be warmed by the joys of the blest, 
And the good in the spirit of sympathy rest. 

Mary Catharine Pray, 1806-1879. 



aprt'l 13. 



Our name is a good one. A better I cannot conceive. 
It has a common centre — UNITY — and a positive dec- 
laration, — one God, and Father of all, one Lord, the 
Saviour of all, one brotherhood, one fold. It has a 
boundless circumference. It accepts all truth, embraces 
all goodness, rewards all virtue, punishes all vice, saves 
and blesses all men. It overcomes all evil, corrects all 
error, removes all wrong, reconciles all hearts to God. 
It is the synonyme of all that is true and pure, and good 
and holy, and beautiful and lovely, and noble and glori- 
ous in God, in man, and in all the world. It banishes to 
eternal oblivion whatever is opposed to God and human 
happiness, — all wrath, enmity, hatred, variance, every- 
thing impure, false, hateful, all sin, sorrow, suffering, 
death, and corruption. It fills the soul with all love, 
peace, good-will, joy, and attunes the heart to the praise 
of God. Beautiful, harmonious, significant word, — 
" UNIVERSALIS*! ! " R ev . William Stevens Balch, D.D., 
Rev. Abram Conklix, 1858- 1806- 



Spril 14. 



We do not any of us like to grow old. The first 
snowflakes fall upon our hair with a touch of sadness. 
And yet why should we shrink from the autumn of life ? 
October is queen of the year : the trophies of all the sea- 
sons are laid at her feet. And old age — which is a genu- 
ine October, golden and beautiful with ripened wisdom, 
goodness, and faith — is as much richer than youth as 
autumn is richer than the springtime. An old age, how- 
ever, not found in the way of righteousness, is desolate 
as a fruitless autumn. Beneath the decaying husks, as 
autumn approaches, let there be golden grain, and we 
can sing the harvest-home with joy. 

Rev. J. M. Payson, April 13, 1848- 



aptfi i5. 



The doctrine of universal salvation is a call for man's 
co-operation with God. The doctrine is a call for all 
believers in it to be earnest workers in behalf of the cause 
of universal salvation. We have no warrant in Scrip- 
ture, in reason or human experience, to expect that 
it will be done without human agency, or for believing 
that every soul will be saved until every soul has itself 
done something towards that salvation. 

Rev. C. L. Waite- 

Christianity and Universalism are substantially the 
same: (i) in the circumstances of their origin, (2) in 
the opposition they have encountered, (3) in their funda- 
mental principles,(4) in their view of God's love to man, 
(5) and of man's brotherhood, (6) in the character and 
orfice of Christ, (7) in their practical aims, and (8) in 
their statement of man's destiny. 

Rev. Sebastian Streeter, 1783-1868. 

— aprfl 16. 

Universalism gives entire peace and joy to the soul 
in the dying hour. The expiring parents have no cruel 
misgivings for themselves or each other. With eyes 
quivering in death, the believer can take his last adieu of 
all surviving friends. The believer can kiss the rod of 
affliction and chastisement with filial submission. His 
faith embraces his relatives, friends, acquaintances, foes, 
and all his fellow-beings. He believes that in the resur- 
rection they will be as "the angels of God in heaven," 
and die no more. And, believing, he rejoices with joy 
unspeakable, and full of glory. Passing strange that any 
should think that this glorious system is not as an 
anchor to the soul in the hour of dissolution ! 

Rev. Russell Streeter, April 15, 1791-1880. 

Let Faith's angel-finger point thy glittering eyes above. 
Where broken friendships are unknown, and all is 
perfect love. 

Mrs. C. A. Jerauld, 1820-1843. 



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2lpnl 15. 



aptti i6. 



aprii 17. 

Universalism has been the light, inspiration, and joy of 
my life for fifty-eight years, when it came through the 
study of the Bible. Experience and observation have 
uniformly testified to its uplifting power in bringing 
human souls nearer to Christ. To me it has made the 
world bright and beautiful, writing the love of God on 
all visible things, ever pointing forward to a blissful re- 
union of loved ones, in the Father's home above. In 
a serene old age 

" Beside the silent sea 
I wait the muffled oar 
No harm from Him can come to me 
On ocean or on shore." 

" Death is swallowed up in victory " even now. 

Rev. David Thurston Stevens, 
Rev. Thompson Barron, 1816-1870. 1809- 

___— gpril 18. 



I plead for Christ, for the honor of his name, for the 
power of his salvation, for the glory of his cross, for 
the endless and boundless ministries of that redemption 
the virtue of which we are asked to believe is stricken 
to impotence by the hand of death. I plead for the hope 
of the destruction of the work of the devil in the universe 
by the salvation of all that bears trace of the touch of 
the hand of God, — sin withered under the curse of the 
souls that were once its victims ; the devil spoiled of his 
dark dominion, not by the fiat of omnipotent will, but by 
the hand of omnipotent love ; hell destroyed ; Christ 
triumphant, gathering the fruits of his cross and passion 
here and in all the worlds. 

# Rev. J. Baldwin Brown. 

Rev. H. E. WHITNEY, 1818-1872. 



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aprti 19. 



The real victory is to be won, not on the dying-bed, 
but before. When Jesus had gone forth from his strug- 
gle and prayer in Gethsemane ; when his soul had been 
baptized in submission to God ; when he had said, " Not 
my will, but thine, be done," — the real victory over the 
cross was gained. And so, when the hour came, he went 
calmly and triumphantly out to Calvary. And he who 
has this faith in his heart may begin the hymn of triumph 
now, for the victory is pledged. " Thanks be to God, 
which [not shall give, but] giveth us the victory through 
our Lord Jesus Christ." 

Rev. Charles A. Skinner, 1824- 
Rev. Jos 1 ah Davis, 1810- 



9pril 20. 



From the time I reached manhood's years, I have in 
one way and another given my life to the propagation of 
this glorious sentiment. Born with a feeble constitution, 
and having to fight my way against feeble abilities, still I 
have never yet sought for a place in our ministry ; and 
by God's help, joined to active industry, with a noble 
consecrated wife for a helpmate, I feel that my work has 
been eminently successful. And now, as I look towards 
sunset, and the natural light grows dim, the light upon 
the altar of faith shines with undiminished lustre. 

Rev. Alfred Barnes, 1816- 



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Sprtl 21. 



And oh, there lives within my heart 

A hope long nursed by me ; 
And, should its cheering ray depart, 

How dark my soul w r ould be ! — 

That even the wicked shall at last 

Be fitted for the skies, 
And, when their dreadful doom is past, 

To life and light arise. 

Emily Bronte, 1816-1855. 



Rev. J. LOCKWOOD, 1803- 1875. 
Rev. O. WHISTON, 1804-1881. 



&pril 22. 



The hour is named 
When seraph, cherub, angel, saint, man, fiend, 
Made pure and unbelievably uplift 
Above their present state, — drawn up to God, 
Like dew into the air, — shall be all heaven, 
And all souls shall be in God. 

P. J. Bailey, 1816- 



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apra 21. 



gpril 22. 



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april 23. 



All my life I have tried to serve God by doing a little 
for humanity, and have worked very hopefully, remem- 
bering that " what ought to be will be" in God's own 
good time. We sometimes wait long for the right to be 
vindicated ; but we serve a Master who is " not willing 
that any should perish." 

Mrs. Sarah M. C. Perkins, 1824- 



april 24. 



I believe in God, whose love and wisdom are in all, 
and over all, and through all things. 

I believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, through 
his spiritual likeness to the Father, and that, as we ap- 
proach the higher estates of holiness, we merge into the 
same Sonship by the same law. 

I believe that he is the best Christian who is the best 
man ; that the doors of the divine privilege stand open 
forever before all souls, and that whether man shall enter 
them or no depends upon the decision of his own will. 

I believe that holiness is heaven, and that sin is hell. 

I believe that good life is as divine here as it will be 
in any part of the universe, that we shall find in the 
world abroad essentially the same spirit we bear within 
our own hearts, that in the paths of life we generally meet 
what we are, as in a mirror we approach ourselves. 

Rev. E. L. Rexford, D.D., 1S42- 

Rev. LEMUEL WILLIS, 1802-1878. 



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aprfl 25. 

Christianity does not sunder friendship ; it does not 
sever affection ; it builds no outward wall between the 
living and the dead. Those who are separated by moral 
distinctions are, or must be, some time or somewhere, 
brought together by its power. It speaks of the ancient 
patriarchs as still living under the eye of God, though 
their bodies crumbled to dust ages ago, and as Abra- 
ham, Isaac, and Jacob still. It brings to view on the 
glorified mountain, in the quiet hour of evening, the spir- 
itual forms of Moses and Elias, talking with the transfi- 
gured Son of God. Its distinct voice to the sorrowing 
sisters is, not that the departed shall live hereafter in 
some indefinable sense, but, " Thy brother shall rise 
again," — "thy brother," the very brother whom you 
have known and loved in days gone by, the brother 
whom you pray to know and love forevermore. 

Rev. Henry C. Leonard, 1818-1880. 

Sprfl 26. 



A nation fasts this day. O Lord, we bow 
In meekness, fear, and trust before thy throne. 
Oh, hear us, Lord ! our country save. For none 
But thou canst stay the swelling tide of war. 
Thy will is absolute, supreme, and he 
Who dares oppose thy will or soon or late 
Is humbled to the dust. So, penitent, 
We come. Our sins forgive. We turn to thee, 
And wilt thou bid a nation live ? Amen. 

Martha A. Adams, 1831- 

Faith to be " the assurance of things hoped for, the 

proving of things not seen," must stand in the love of 

God. 

Rev. W. L. Gibbs, April 26, 1841- 



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aprtl 25 




135 



2pril 27. 



Nay, but 'tis not the end ; 

God were not God if such a thing could be : 

If not in time, then in eternity, 

There must be room for penitence, to mend 

Life's broken chance, else noise of wars 

Would unmake heaven. 

Alice Carey, April 26, 1820-1871 



gprtl 28. 

As I consider the doctrines of the various sects of 
Christendom, they seem to be merely fragmentary. 

1. The absolute wisdom, power, justice, and sover- 
eignty of God have characterized Calvinism. 

2. The absolute goodness, free agency, and dependence 
of man as a rational being of an almost infinite capacity, 
have characterized Methodism. 

3. The purposes of God successful in creation, all ends 
accomplished in the gift of Christ, have been the chief 
doctrines of Universalism. 

The Calvinistic churches have founded themselves 
upon the first, and lost sight of the other two. The 
Arminian branches have founded their cardinal princi- 
ples upon the second; and the first and third have been 
left in the background. 

The Universalist church has dwelt upon the third class 
of doctrines. It is only when all the lines of thought are 
united, that a completed system of doctrine is formed. 

Rev. E. L. Briggs, 1822- 

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— ■ &pril 29. 

Nor does the cross in this view lighten the just penalty 
of sin, but it places the penalty where it belongs ; it says, 
" The soul that sinneth, //shall die," and not, that its guilt 
shall be expiated by another ; and it makes the suffering 
as certain and as long as the sinning in this or any future 
world. But making, as it does, character the condition of 
heaven or hell, and seeing in God the Father of all, and 
that his love is " from everlasting to everlasting," and 
that life is an education, a training, it sees no reason for 
limiting that everlasting love and care to the few brief 
days of earth, but believes that God's saving work will 
go on in all worlds, and that this love in Christ and in 
all angels and holy beings will always be seeking the lost, 
and will always rejoice when any prodigal shall return. 
Rev. H. W. Thomas, D.D., 1832- 

aprfl 30. 



In God's eternity there shall a day arise 
When all the race of man shall be with Jesus in the skies : 
As music fills the grove when stormy clouds are past, 
Sweet anthems of redeeming love shall all employ at last- 

The Saviour himself tells us, " And I, if I be lifted up 
from the earth, will draw all men unto me." The mis- 
sion of the Saviour was for the salvation of the whole 
world, and we are assured that " he shall see of the tra- 
vail of his soul, and be satisfied." It was the design of 
our heavenly Father to accomplish this object, and his 
power, wisdom, and love are combined to perform it, and 
the means he has instituted must and will be effectual 

for its accomplishment 

Hosea Ballou, 1771-1852. 



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2t?ap. 



Oh ! the merry May has pleasant hours, 

And dreamily they glide, 
As if they floated like the leaves 

Upon a silver tide. 

The trees are full of crimson buds, 

And the woods are full of birds, 
And the waters flow to music, 

Like a tune with pleasant words. 

N. P. Willis. 

The flowery May, who from her green lap throws 
The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose, 
Hail, bounteous May ! 

William Shakspeare. 

As for man, his days are as grass : 
As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; 
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, 
And the place thereof shall know it no more. 

Ps. ciii. 15, 16. 

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; 
But the word of our God shall stand forever. 

ISA. xl. 8. 

As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made 
alive. — 1 Cor. xv. 22. 



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fflag 1. 

Educated under Methodist control, the prevailing reli- 
gious incentives were the doctrine of endless torment, and 
a change of nature to save the soul therefrom, and to 
induct into a supernatural heaven. These demands were 
unnatural, discouraging, distressing, valueless as worthy 
moral incentives. 

But an incident in very early life disclosed the idea of 
the final sinlessness and happiness of all mankind, salva- 
tion from sin being the one great need. This sentiment 
induced a new class of reflections, emotions, and incen- 
tives, hence real conversion, — a new mind purpose ; a 
hearty reformation ; a rational sense of dependence on 
God ; a feeling of grateful obligation, love, veneration, 
and obedience to him ; an aspiration and a living life, 
rather than a rhapsody and a song ; an internal govern- 
ing principle, rather than an external halo ; an extrane- 
ous glory. 

Rev. Thomas Abbott, Sept. 21, 1818. 

iflag 2. 



In the peaceful evening hour that wanes into the light 
of that day which witnessed the resurrection of Jesus, sur- 
rounded by a few chosen friends, gathered at her request, 
her brow received, mingled with the death-dew that was 
gathering there, meet emblem of the blending of the 
mortal with the immortal, the sign of baptism into the 
Spirit of heaven. And in company with them, her lips, 
already paling at the touch of death, received the conse- 
crated emblems of the Saviour's dying love ; and the 
sweet, transcendent peace which her spirit enjoyed in- 
wreathed her countenance in a smile of triumph which 
even death had no power to efface. 

Rev. T. J. Greenwood. 



142 



To have clean hands and a pure heart, this is the as- 
piration of Universalists. We would stand always in our 
Father's presence as nearly spotless and blameless as 
we can, and our religion is but the way and method to 

this end. 

Rev. Rolla Gillmore Spaffokd, 1849- 

Rev. B. Whittemore, 1801-1881. 



JHag 4. 



It is useless to attempt to convince men in these days 
that there is nothing good in the world or in human life ; 
but they can be made to see and feel that all these good 
things are insufficient until the way of their higher use is 
discerned, and that above all are the enduring realities 
of the spiritual world. Who so would persuade and di- 
rect the men of to-day must recognize the conditions of 
the life of to-day, and must speak words that can be un- 
derstood. If our gospel is the word of the Lord, and as 
such is to endure, in its preaching God must be supreme, 
Christ must save, love must be love indeed, the kingdom 
must be righteousness and joy and peace. 

Rev. William Rollin Shipman, D.D., 1836- 



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fflag 5. 

When we look upon ourselves as immortal beings, and 
upon this life as but introductory to another higher and 
never-ending state of being, then the injunction to " dress 
and keep the garden " becomes of paramount importance, 
as by a strict obedience to the divine command we may 
not only enjoy in a high degree the present life, but pre- 
pare ourselves in some humble measure for the exalted 
joys and the unending felicities of the life to come. 

Rev. S. Gokf, 1811-1861. 

Like a sweet star, failing slowly 
In the morning's purple light, 

Day by day the dear one sleeping 
Faded gently from our sight. 

Scarcely knew we when the angels 
With their shining hands let down 

Softly to his waiting forehead 
The immortal starry crown. 

Emily Rebecca Page, 1S34-1S62. 

iHas 6. 

Toward the close of the month which closeth our year, 
the Saviour was born. So in the last day of time, when 
the divine arrangements are well near completed, the res- 
titution of all things shall be made manifest, and the 
winding-up of the great drama, bringing forward the ac- 
complishment of the design of an all-wise Creator; and, 
sin being annihilated, sorrow shall be no more. 

Mrs. Judith Murray, May 5, 1751-1820. 

A Universalist is one who believes thoroughly in "the 
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man," and in 
the ultimate salvation of all souls from sin, through the 
grace and truth that came by Jesus Christ, and who, 
believing thus, acts accordingly, serving God in serving 
humanity, seeking to establish'justice for all, regardless 
of class, color, or sex, and prayerfully trusting God for 
the experiences of time and eternity. 

Rev. P. A. Haxaford, 1829. 



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'47 



JHag 7. . 

Because we believe that the world will one day be 
saved, we do not therefore feel it to be less requisite to 
work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. 
Till we heartily engage in this work, we are yet. strangers 
to the peace of God, and aliens to the inheritance of the 
blessed. For our encouragement in this work is the doc- 
trine of the text revealed. It holds up to us a glorious 
destiny for which we were created, and to which the 
world is to attain. It gives us the assurance of a present 
good to every one who shall submit to the reign of 
Christ, while holding out the bright prospect of a world 
redeemed, to sustain, encourage, and animate us in every 

endeavor here. 

Rev. Giles Bailey, 1815-1878. 



The phase of all the faiths most wise and true 
Is that which brings the noblest God to view, 
Repudiates all cruel, selfish creeds, 
And brings to erring man his truest needs. 
It saves at last each wayward, wandering soul, 
And gives a gracious God supreme control : 
Such is the faith in youth we joyed to own ; 
In waning life 't is not to us unknown. 

Rev. H. W. Morse, May 2, 1810- 



Suppose our courts of justice should do this : a law is 
made, with the penalty of death annexed to it ; the sub- 
jects of government are told, that, if they violate the law 
they shall be hanged, unless they come and ask pardon of 
the judge, the court — in that case they shall escape all 
punishment. What would such a government be worth ? 
And if the divine government is thus conducted, what is 

that worth ? 

Rev. E. M. Pingree, 1817-1849. 

What would avail to me the joys of heaven, 
And all the splendors of the golden coast, 

If I must know millions of human souls 
In misery groan, and are forever lost ? 

Lucy Barnes, March 6, 1780-1809. 



fflav 10. 



Our ideal church is the Universalist church. There 
can be no limit set to its mighty power. It has grown 
rapidly because it has such inherent force ; and its in- 
fluence is felt everywhere in and beyond Christendom. 
It has outgrown its long-clothes, and even its round- 
abouts, and steps forth to-day in strong, early manhood, 
its aspirations and hopes flooded with the light pouring 

in on every side. 

Lucy M. Creamer, March 28, 1842- 



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iHag II. 



Of man this gospel speaks in language no less posi- 
tive and well considered. It recognizes his imperfec- 
tions, it laments his iniquities, it feels his woes. ... It 
believes that an undying spark of the divine goodness 
is embodied in his human image. It believes in man, in 
his disposition, his abilities. It does not allow that for the 
most part his faults are due to depravity, rather it traces 
them to ignorance. ... It anticipates a day of dawn when 
the blessed truths of religion will become significant to 
all ; and in that hour of revelation it trusts to see every 
knee bending, and hear every tongue confessing that in 
the Lord is righteousness and strength. 

Rev. C. E. Nash, March 3T, 1855- 



fHag 12. 

The moment we say " Our Father," we not only rec- 
ognize our filial relations to God, but our fraternal rela- 
tions to man. We enter into a covenant every time we 
utter the Lord's Prayer, to look out for the welfare and 
interests of all mankind, to recognize no caste or dis- 
tinction, or chasm of separation, between ourselves and 
others. " Our Father " is the Golden Rule in short- 
hand. It is the aspiration in worship, of which that is 
the ethical statement. 

The Compiler of this Volume, 1823- 

And when, with multitudes above, 
Thy ransomed sweep the trembling lyre, 

Thy power, goodness, truth, and love, 
Each seraph's song with joy shall fire. 

Lucy A. Quinby, 1821-1860. 



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iHag 13. 



That the pardon of sin under the divine government 
is not the remission of penalty, or the cancelling or re- 
linquishment of any portion of the punishment which 
sinners deserve, appears to me to be an incontrovertible 
truth, so clearly and prominently taught in the Scrip- 
tures, that no man need mistake it. 

Rev. R. O. Willtams, 1805. 



iifiag 14. 



If my name were worthy to be preserved, I should 
wish to have it inscribed upon the banner of Christ the 
Lord, set up in some of the waste places of the earth, to 
redeem souls to righteousness through and by the re- 
deeming power of Infinite and Everlasting Love. 

M. Louise Thomas. 

Do any sigh over the waywardness of some cherished 
friend, some child, or brother, or parent ? Is there a 
vacant chair in your home-circle, which in its mute elo- 
quence pleads with memory that the departed shall not 
be forgotten ? Be entreated to welcome that measure of 
faith which beholds the blessed Jesus making up his jew- 
els, gathering every hour the trophies of his grace, re- 
clasping broken chains, and cementing human hearts in 
everlasting union by that love which alone shall subdue 
all things. 

Rev. John Boyden, 1809-1869. 



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— JHag 13 




fHag 15. 

We do not believe any of the forms or doctrinal state- 
ments of any of the churches in Christendom is itself 
spirit. No Bible word as it rests upon ordinary printed 
pages is itself spirit. Forms, dogmas, the most sacred 
words, all become spirit to mankind, only when they are 
refilled bv the spirit which God breathes through man- 
kind into them, and through them into mankind. We 
as a church, being substantially correct in our intellectual 
comprehension of the specialties and generalities of the 
Christian religion, are fruitless, if we are not wise enough 
to apprehend this truth as a pervading spiritual force in 
its soul-meaning, and great enough to use it in the same 
almightiness. And we will not accept the possibility of 
failure before we have sought to measure our faith through 
and through, and until we have absorbed and made every 
way practical the whole of it according to the law and 
gospel of the spiritual universe. 

Rev. C. R. Moor, 1825. 

: JHag 16. 



The fact that man was created by a God of infinite 
love, wisdom, power, and justice, is a sufficient guaranty 
that such existence will not in any case prove an endless 
curse. Infinite love would desire the final happiness of 
all. Infinite wisdom would arrange a perfect plan, which, 
when carried through, would secure the end desired. 

Infinite power would secure all that infinite love de- 
sired, or infinite wisdom devised. 

Infinite justice could be satisfied with nothing less 
than what the other attributes of God claimed, — the 
destruction of evil and the triumph of good throughout 
the empire of God. Hence Universalism flows from 
the very nature of God. 

Rev. John Crenshaw Burrus, 182 i- 



156 




157 



JHag 17. 



As the mother may permit her well-loved child liberties 
which may lead it to some pain, to the end of its disci- 
pline, but not liberties which will involve it in utter ruin; 
as she may allow it to stumble over a sod, but not off a 
precipice ; as she may suffer it, if it will do so, to put its 
hand on a warm stove, but not into a red-hot one, — .so God 
may grant his children a disciplinary freedom, in the use 
of which they may draw on themselves pains and penal- 
ties, in order to a free and ideal obedience ; but he can- 
not, on any ground of justice or good-will, grant them a 
liberty which he foresees they will turn to an eternal 
woe. 

Rev. Sumner Ellis, D.D , 1828- 



#tag 18. 



If God loves his children one-half as well as I do mine, 
he can never inflict endless misery upon them. If 
Jesus is as merciful and as impartial to his brethren 
as Joseph was to his, he will never suffer them to per- 
ish in a barren land while the riches of his grace en- 
dure, or the treasures of his love are unexhausted. 

Rev. Dolphus Skinner, D.D., 1800-1869. 



i S 8 



jjHag 19. 

We read in Pro v. x. 24, that the fears of the wicked 

shall come upon him. Now, the so-called Orthodox 

churches say if the wicked will believe their creed, and 

comply with their conditions, they shall not be punished, 

which is what the wicked fear. Which, think ye, is in 

accordance with the experience of the world ? In the 

same verse we also read that the desire of the righteous 

shall be granted ; and no one will dispute that Christ was 

righteous. Now what did he desire ? Was it not the 

salvation of the human race ? Most surely it was. For 

this he labored and suffered and died. He also taught his 

disciples to labor and pray for it. It is not only the desire 

of the righteous, but it is a righteous desire : will it be 

granted ? He also told us to pray for or desire it : so 

we think it will be granted. 

Rev. G. S. Gowdy, 18 10- 

JHag 20. 

There is nothing so relentless as love. If God is love, 
all evil and sin must vanish in his consuming fire. For 
" neither life nor death, neither principalities, nor powers, 
nor angels, nor any creature, shall be able to separate us 
from the love of God." 

What grounds, then, have men for proclaiming the 
eternity of sin and suffering ? " In the long days of God, 
in the long paths untrod," there shall be an end of sin, 
and transgression shall be finished. 

Mrs E. C. Tomlinson, 1831- 

Universalism is the power of God unto salvation. 
The means are the inexhaustible and irresistible re- 
sources of infinite wisdom and love. The time may be 
an eternity of eternities ; but the magnificent result is, 
that God will be " all in all." 

Rev. Cassius L. Haskell, 1850- 

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— fHag 21. 

Death is the fading of a cloud, 
The breaking of a chain, 

The rending of a mortal shroud 
We ne'er shall see again. 



Death is the close of life's alarms, 
The watch-light on the shore, 

The clasping in immortal arms 
Of loved ones gone before. 

Death is the gaining of a crown 
Where men and angels meet, 

The laying of our burden down 
At the Deliverer's feet. 



Rev. T. L. Harris, 1S23- 



iflao 22. 



For all that is amiable in character, reforming in influ- 
ence, pleasing in contemplation, happifying in practice, 
and beneficial in consequences in each and all the other 
systems of religion, are here retained in all their love- 
liness, in all their power, and in all their benefit. I 
challenge the mention of a single particular of the above- 
named character with which this is not the case. Would 
you receive into your mind and affections the glorious 
perceptions arising from a hope in immortality and end- 
less life, from the full perfections, glory, and loveliness 
of God and his providences, as yielded by the teachings 
of nature and revelation combined, and addressed to the 
reason and religious feelings of men ? You will find 
them by embracing the doctrine of Universalism. 

Rev. A. B. Grosh, 1803-1884. 



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fflag 23. 



My faith is in the existence of a God of infinite power, 
wisdom, and love, whereby he created a world which 
cannot fail in answering the designs and purposes of an 
infinite mind. The designs were good, everlastingly 
good, to all the children he hath created. 

Rev. Josiah Marvin, 1819- 

Whatever has been permitted by the law of being 
must be for good, and only in time not good. Evil is 
obstruction : good is accomplishment. 

Makgaket Fuller Ossoli, 18 10-1850. 



Pag 24. 

The human heart craves a simple religion which it can 
understand and to which it can heartily respond. What 
so meets its desire as Universalism ? Of God, it says, 
He is our Father ; of Christ, He is our brother, a suc- 
cessful Saviour ; of heaven. It is the home of all, in 
whose genial atmosphere and higher opportunities we 
come to our saintly fruition ; of mankind, They are God's 
children, every one of them made in his image, in whose 
fulness of love and beneficence of power they shall find 
a providence which called them into being, and will give 
them the full consummation of their power. 

The soul that is normal asks, yea, strongly desires, 
that evil shall be punished, and merit rewarded ; but it 
desires this, not as a revenge and indulgence, but as 
needed medicine and righteous approval. 

Rev. F. Maguire, 1839- 



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JHag 23. 



M&2 24. 



165 



iJHag 25. . 

God is love, and goodness is the working-force of his 
administration. Fear may serve a purpose in the earlier 
stages of spiritual life, and upon coarse, brutal natures, 
but should not be applied as a working-motive before all 
other agencies are exhausted, and never upon a nature 
made sensitive through suffering, and open to spiritual 
good. Fear produces negative results, and cannot build 
large and ripe Christian manhood. 

Rev. L. W. Bkigham, 1841 

Glad was my soul to hear the herald cry to-day : 

'• The Lord is coming to his own ; prepare ye now his way. 

Exalt the humble vales of love and godly fear ; 

Lay low the hills of sin, and make a highway broad and clear. 

God's glory shall be known, that glory all shall see; 

The promise that he made of old at last fulfilled shall be." 

He comes, the Saviour comes ! All hail the blessed day ! 

I '11 hurry forth with shout and song, and meet him on the way. 

Rev. C. F. Lee. 



ilag 26. 



God is our Creator, and Jesus has taught us that God 
is our Father. We are therefore brethren, and members 
of one family. " God has created of one blood all nations 
of men to dwell on all the face of the earth." 

If this be true, which none will deny, God will use his 
power, which is infinite, to bring his entire family in har- 
mony with his own divine character. His infinite power, 
his infinite wisdom, his infinite love, must prove suffi- 
cient to the accomplishment of his divine will. He 
"wills that all men shall be saved, and brought to a 
knowledge of the truth." To deny that God's will will 
finally be the law of every soul he has created is 

atheism. 

Rev. L. F. McKinney, May 25, 1841- 



166 



iHag 25. 



fHau 26. 



167 



— iHag 27. 

To say nothing of the advantages and infinite conso- 
lations which the hopes of the gospel inspire through all 
the journey of life, how much they contribute to inspire 
and refine every social and virtuous affection of the 
heart ! and what reconciliation and peace they inspire 
under all the allotments of a righteous Providence ! 
What can equal their importance in the hour of death, 
when all earthly prospects are fading upon the sight ? . . . 
Oh, then give me these blissful, these invaluable hopes! 
They shall support my trembling heart amidst the 
fiercest storms of trouble, and cheer the last faint glim- 
merings of departing life with visions of celestial and 
unending joy. 

Rev. David Pickering, May 25, 17S8-1859. 

JKarj 28. 



No man has ever shown, or can show, that there is 

any limitation in numbers from the *' all " that "die in 

Adam" to the number that shall be "raised in glory," 

and "bear the image of the heavenly." The chapter 

(1 Cor. xv.) is a glorious one, yea, we may say the best 

in the Bible, and would alone render the Bible a Uni- 

versalist book. The ultimate and universal prevalence 

of immortality, virtue, and happiness, is thus plainly 

disclosed and asserted with all the energy and dignity 

worthy of the exalted theme. 

Rev. Eben Francis, i 
Rev. J. T. Goodrich, 1815-1871. 



168 



iHag 29. 

I cannot believe in endless hell 
And heaven side by side. How could I dwell 
Among the saved, for thinking of the lost ? 
With such a lot, the best would suffer most. 

Sitting at feast all in a Golden Home 
That towered over dungeon-gates of Doom, 
My heart would ache for all the lost that go 
To wail and weep in everlasting woe : 
Through all the music I must hear the moan, 
Too sharp for all the harps of heaven to drown. 

All divergent lines at last will meet, 

To make the clasping round of love complete. 

The rift 'twixt sense and spirit will be healed 

Ere the Redeemer's work be crowned and sealed. 

Evil shall die like dung about the root 

Of good, or climb converted into fruit. 

Gerald Massey, 1828- 

fflag 30. 



From the manner of Christ, I know he did not intend 
to teach endless punishment in the words recorded in 
Matt. xxv. 46, nor elsewhere. He who announced the 
destruction of Jerusalem in an agony of grief could 
not have announced the endless pain of millions unper- 
turbed. The agony of the garden would have been 
moderation in comparison with that which would have 
characterized such a declaration. 

Rev. Charles P. Nash, March 16, 1831- 



170 



iflag 29. 



iHao 30. 



171 



iHag 31. 



All, all, for Immortality ! 

Love, like the light, silently wrapping alll 

Nature's amelioration blessing all ! 

The blossoms, fruits of ages — orchards divine and 

certain ; 
Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images 

ripening. 
Give me, O God, to sing that though! ! 
Give me, give him or her I love, this quenchless faith 
In thy ensemble — whatever else withheld, withhold not 

from us 

Belief in plan of thee enclosed in time and space, 

Health, peace, salvation universal. 

Is it a dream ? 

Nay, but the lack of it a dream, 

And, failing it, life's lore and wealth a dream, 

And all the world a dream ! 

Walt Whitman, 1824- 



IBajj 81. 



V3 



^Putte. 



What is so rare as a day in June ? 

Then, if ever, come perfect days ; 
Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, 

And over it softly her warm ear lays. 
Whether we look, or whether we listen, 
We hear life murmur, we see it glisten ; 
Every clod feels a stir of might, 

An instinct within it that reaches and towers, 
And, groping blindly above it for light, 

Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers. 
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how ; 
Everything is happy now. 

J. R. Lowell. 

Consider the lilies, how they grow : they toil not, they spin 
not ; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory 
was not arrayed like one of these. — Luke xii. 27. 

And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the 
Son to be the Saviour of the world. — 1 John iv. 14. 



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— — : 3unz 1 . — 

The time will never come, here or hereafter, when man 
will not be under obligation, and justice require him to 
love God with all his heart. Obligation implies ability. 
God's justice is eternal ; man's obligation eternal ; and 
his freedom and ability to obey the law equally so. Nor 
will anything short of his entire conformity ever satisfy 
the claims of justice or the righteous demands ot the law 
of the Most High. Thus the law and justice are in 
their demands prophetic of man's final destiny. 

Rev. John Hughes, 1834- 

Life without an eternity to follow it is like a half- 
written sentence, which has no meaning till the other 
half is added. All our deeds, our sufferings, our attempts 
at virtue, are without significance, unless there comes in 
the fulness of an eternal life to consummate them all in 
triumphant holiness. 

Rev. Amory Battles, 1823- 

3une 2. 



My faith in God's universal care and protection has 
never faltered : it has stayed up my hands in prosperity 
and adversity, and, as age advances, it is a stay and a staff 
upon which J .can lean with eternal security. Univer- 
salism to me is the highest type of the Christian life, and 
he who is founded upon its divine securities is founded 
upon a rock that the winds of time cannot disturb. 

Rev. O. H. Johnson, June i, 1815- 

Rev. Warren Skinner. 



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June 1 




June 3. 



We conceive of no sorcery, of no ingenuity, of no pol- 
icy, by means of which the soul that sins can escape the 
sequences of its sins. It is a fatal cheat that a person 
can sin during all his lifetime, and, by a little regret just 
before he dies, swing out into ineffable spiritual transports. 
Holiness is heaven : wickedness is hell. In our rendering 
of the divine methods, retributions are not ultimates ; 
they are means to a finality : their purpose is a check 
upon unholiness, and its complete eradication from the 
soul. So interpreted, we can perceive a cheering har- 
mony between them and the love which has put them 
into its effectual adjustments ; and people ought no more 
to seek an evasion of them than they should reject the 
restorative compounds which are ministered to their 
physical illnesses. 

Rev. Daniel Mortimer Reed, 182 i- 



3nnt 4. 



Jesus rested by Jacob's well : 

Oh the bliss of his sympathy ! 
How like a wave's o'ermastering swell 

It lapped my soul in love's full sea, 
And made me glad of the smallest sign 
That I am his, and he is mine ! 

Grateful voices singing of him 

Rose from the moist grass round the spring, 
Soared aloft from the pitcher's rim, 

Swelled from the field of harvesting : 
" God is a spirit/' the full song said, 
" And his field, the world, shall be harvested." 
Mrs. Jane L. Patterson, 1829- 

Rev. O. P. KlMMEL, 1854-1880. 
Rev. T. J. WHITCOMB, 1801-1877. 



178 



3utu 5. 



There is no death ! what seems so is transition ; 

This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 

Whose portal we call Death. 

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, 
Leading from light to light through a brief darkness. 
H. W. Longfellow, Feb. 27, 1807-18S2. 



3unz 6. 



When the wind blows, the blossoms fall ; 
But a good God reigns over all. 

* Charles Mackay, 1812- 

Hon. ISRAEL WASHBURNE, 1813-1883. 



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Sunt 7. 

There is overwhelming significance in the fact that 
humanity, unregenerate as well as regenerate, are particu- 
larly affirmed to be " the offspring of God." And in this 
fact is plainly disclosed the cause of that loving effort 
from the sphere of the Deity which is the one lauded 
glory of the gospel, — the effort that was in Christ made 
and continued to be made in behalf of even the most de- 
praved. It is from the unequalled and unextinguishable 
interest of a parent's love. We who are parents also, 
recall a certain correspondence in it with what occurs in 
our own hearts in respect to our offspring, — a yearning 
towards all, and especially towards those least fortunate 
in attainment, with a permanent indisposition, whatever 
be the provocation, towards abandoning them. It must 
be obvious that whatever passages may seem to militate 
against the doctrine of the final universal attainment to 
holiness must be considered as incorrectly interpreted. 

Rev. J. Straub, A.M., 1835- 
Rev. A. J. Shaw, 1848- 

Strne 8. 



But will not death separate us from the love of our 
heavenly Father ? If death were the annihilation of our 
being, or if the future were a scene of retribution for the 
failures and shortcomings of the present life, — this, and 
nothing more, nothing better, — the love of God could 
not be experienced there. But if God has purposed that 
we shall live beyond the event of death, that our life 
there shall be spent amidst pleasant scenes, in the en- 
joyment of pure society, in communion with the beloved 
of our hearts, and in the service of Him who is infinite 
in the perfections of his character, then, indeed, death 
cannot separate us from his love. This view of God's 
love inspires us with confidence in him, and gives us 
the feeling of assurance that in his hands we are ever 
safe, and that a destiny awaits us, glorious beyond a 
seraph's thought. 

Rev. William Riley French, A.M., 1814- 

Rev. EMMONS PARTRIDGE, 1799-1873. 



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Jtane 9. 



The tendency of our faith is towards a grand unity. 
Forms of worship will change from age to age, and will 
vary in different parts of the world ; but we may be 
sure that man will always be a worshipper. As long as 
human souls come from the mystery of birth, and go into 
the mystery of death, man will have more or less faith in 
an unseen land, and will practise religious rites We 
all, at times, feel the touch of our divinity, and are con- 
scious that the soul is a harp strung for the breezes of 
another world, where finer music will issue. We cannot 
uproot this tendency to worship which God has implanted 
as a heavenly flower in the human breast. 

With such a nature, with such a world of mystery in 
and around him, man will always " worship the Lord in 
the beauty of holiness." 

Rev. S. A. Parker, June io, 1834- 



3nnz 10. 



In bearing up under the ills and misfortunes of life, 
there is great consolation and support in the assurance 
that they must terminate, and will terminate in good; 
that a time will come when the cares and disappoint- 
ments, the pains and sorrows, of life, shall have an end ; 
when peace shall succeed discord and contention, and 
pain and anguish terminate in everlasting repose. 

Rev. Thomas Johnson Carney, 1818-1871. 



JJtme 9 




3unz 11. 



And, casting off unwise regrets, 

We yet may hope that time shall prove 
Kind hearts are more than bayonets, 

And force less strong than love ; 
We know that order shall appear 
When God has made his purpose clear, 
The darkest riddle shall be understood, 
And all the perfect world shall in his sight be good. 

*John R. Thompson. 

Rev. C. W. KXICKERB ACKER, 1S24-1JC4. 



Sunt 12. 



There are times when our wants are all summed up 
in one, — the need of the Comforter, the Consoler. Not 
simply in view of the works which death hath wrought, 
changing to shadowy images the forms that once gave 
beauty to our homes, but also in view of the mysteries 
of life, the evils we see about us, especially in great 
cities. I know not how it is with others ; but for myself 
I send adoring thanks to Heaven for the great idea that 
distinguishes us as an order of Christians. I do not 
think I could be changed to a Stoic, and become hardened 
to sights of woe, guilt, and environing ignorance, and 
therefore, without Universalism, I should fall and wither, 
and drop into dust, struck by the blight of the mysteries 
of evil. 

Rev. Henry Bacon, i 8 13-1856. 



1 86 



3ime 11. 



Uttixe 12. 



187 



Sunt 13. 



There is never a time without its opportunity, never 
a man doomed to stationariness, unproductiveness, or 
failure, on account of lack of opportunity. The Eternal 
always gives his child another chance, another trial. 

The Persian poet Hafiz, speaking of life, says, "This 
is the sum, when one door opens, another closes." But 
I can, in the spirit of the New Testament writers, make a 
better statement, and one truer to life, by reversing this 
of Hafiz, and saying, " When one door closes, another 
opens. When one opportunity passes, another is af- 
forded." 

Rev. O. A Rounds, 1849- 



3une 14. 



Are the infinite attributes of the Almighty, so active 
here, quiescent in the world of spirits ? Is God doing 
everything for this wor/d, and nothing for the world of 
souls? It is impossible for God to be quiescent so long 
as an antagonist to himself or to his government exists 
within his dominions. It is an urgent necessity with God, 
a necessity that inheres in himself, to reduce to harmony 
the realm of matter and the realm of souls Whatever 
the condition of the spirit-world, God is operating there 
as here — helped by all good men and women, by " the 
spirits of just men made perfect," by multitudes of holy 
angels, by the punishments sin inflicts, by sorrow and 
regret, by the desire to rise to better states and better 
things — to secure perfect order and harmony, perfect 
holiness and happiness. With the attainment of less than 
this it is impossible God should be satisfied. 

Rev. George Truesdell Flanders, D.D., 
June 28, 1824- 



188 



Suite 13. 



3uiu 14. 



3une 15. 



We do not deny that the wages of sin is death. We 
do not deny the necessity of punishment, the certainty of 
punishment. We see it working awfully enough around 
us in this life : we believe it may work in still more awful 
forms in the life to come. Only tell us not that it must 
be endless, and thereby destroy its whole purpose, and, 
as we think, its whole morality. We, too, believe in an 
eternal fire ; but we believe its existence to be, not a curse, 
but a blessing and a gospel, seeing that that fire is God 
himself, who taketh away the sins of the world, and of 
whom it is therefore written, " Our God is a consuming 
fire." 

Rev. Charles Kingsley, June 12, 1819-1875. 



Stme 16. 



Let us not, then, throw around death so much gloom and 
dread. If that philosophy be true which teaches us that 
the spirits of the dead are the viewless ministers and 
watchers of the living; attending and holy spirits, watch- 
ing over frail mortality, and lingering about the places of 
their olden home, — then would one tear shed in the deep 
sincerity of bereaved affection, one sigh from the full 
heart of sorrow, be far more acceptable to the departed 
spirit than the nodding plume and the gay escutcheon, 
and all the pomp and circumstance of funeral splendor. 

* Rev. Charles Spear, -1863. 
Rev. William Bell, 1791-1871. 
Rev. F. C. Flint, 1836-1879. 



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Sutxe 15, 



Uune 16. 



191 



Sunt 17. 



Is the love we bear our kindred a weakness of our 
earthly natures? Shall we drop it, as we do our bodies, 
when we pass through the gateway of death ? Nay, love 
is divine. It infuses into this life whatever there is of 
Heaven. It will constitute the atmosphere of the " Better 
Land," for " God is love." And, if one soul should fail 
of admission there, it would sadden all Heaven, nay, it 
would send a pang through the heart of God. 

Rev. Daniel Parker Livermore, i8i3- 
Rev. R, BREARE, 1810-1882. 



3une 18. 



" Think noble things of God," for then 

It follows that thy fellow-men 

From thee shall suffer wrong nor pain. 

Helen H. Rich, 1S27- 

If, then, we are travellers, and life is the road, let us 
secure to ourselves a pleasant journey by such a course 
of conduct as Heaven approves, and man must commend. 
Then, whether we climb " Alpine hills," or tread the 
meek and quiet dale, the way will be delightful. u The 
path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more 
and more unto the perfect day." 

*Rev. B. B. Hallock, 1S04-1S69. 



192 



Sunt 17. 



Sum 18. 



193 



3utu 19. 



The world needs to know God as a Father and Friend, 
and not as a Sovereign and Foe, and to be drawn to him 
by the silken bands of paternal love ; and in what other 
theological system than ours can so much of this knowl- 
edge be found, and this winning influence be felt? 
The great heart of humanity needs to feel and acknowl- 
edge the universal bond of brotherhood which exists be- 
tween man and man ; and where shall it be led to this but 
through that religious creed which declares that " One is 
our Father in heaven, and all we are brethren " ? 

Rev. G. W. Bailey, 1816- 



3unt 20. 



My early home, Stockbridge, Mass., could be truly called 
a Calvinistic paradise. Dr. Edwards, who lived and la- 
bored there, moulded the religious thought of the entire 
community. Universalism was neither known nor men- 
tioned. There was literally but one faith. In the midst 
of these untoward surroundings, I became a believer in 
the great salvation at the early age of sixteen, by a care- 
ful study of the word of God, and on this rock I stand 
to-day. And so overjoyed in this new faith was I, that I 
walked fifty miles to attend the great Jubilee Convention 
in Hartford, Conn. Born into a new world, I felt that 
everybody would believe as soon as they saw the light. 
The world moves slowly ; but thank God it moves, and, 
laying aside the beggarly elements of error, it longs to 
drink at the living fountain of truth, and eat of the bread 
of life. 

Rev. Stephen Hull, June 17, 1818- 



194 



Sum iy. 



Sunt 20. 



195 



3unz 21. 



There 's a land that is fairer than day, 
And by faith we can see it afar, 

For the Father waits over the way 
To prepare us a dwelling-place there. 

In the sweet By-and-by 

We shall meet on that beautiful shore. 

We shall sing on that beautiful shore 
The melodious songs of the blest, 

And our spirits shall sorrow no more, 
Not a sigh for the blessing of rest. 

In the sweet By-and-by 

We shall meet on that beautiful shore. 

Dr. S. F. Bennett, 1836- 



3nnz 22. 



Poetry receives its noblest inspiration from the pros- 
pect of the glorious future assured by Universalism ; civil 
government attests its wide-felt power in every claim and 
demand put forth by liberty and protection, based on the 
manhood of our race; philanthropy finds here alone its 
incitement, hopes, and consolation ; moral science demon- 
strates its worth in its theories of obligation, conscience, 
justice, and benevolence, and in all which it presents as 
the highest motive to moral action ; while the more subtle 
philosophies and discoveries of natural science, whether 
taught in popular story or in labored treatise, demand the 
11 perfected harmony of the universe,'' as the only satisfac- 
tory solution of the problems of life and the possibilities 
of Almighty Wisdom and Love. 

Rev. R. Eddy, D.D., June 21. 



196 



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Sunt 21. 



3une 22. 



197 



3tme 23. 

Studious men are engaged in greater earnestness in 
learning of the faith and doctrines of the fathers in the 
early church. The literature in ancient libraries, the tab- 
lets uncovered in buried cities, and the inscribed testimo- 
nies within long-sealed catacombs, are witnesses of the 
help, strength, and hope found in faith and trust. These 
tell in whom they believed. The All-Father, the salvatory 
power of the character of Jesus, and the cross freighted 
with a wondrous meaning, were thoughts central in their 
instructions and life; and with full hearts they responded 
to the words of the earnest advocate, i( We are the Lord's." 
Life was full of meaning ; and the attaining of " the quiet 
and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty " was the 
goal of their highest faith. 

Rev. Anson Titus, June 21, 1847- 

3tme 24. 



The word " God," by virtue of the idea it embodies, is 
the profoundest and most potent term in human language. 
Universalism as a religion meditates God as a loving spir- 
itual Father, whose providence is disciplining mankind, 
his entire household of children, into holiness and happi- 
ness. God is therefore the " central thought " in our faith, 
and a practical pow r er in the human soul. Experience 
shows that religion is vigorous and effective precisely 
to the extent to which it teaches a wise and just Provi- 
dence in the existing order of things. When people sin- 
cerely believe in a benevolent God, they try to act honestly 
and uprightly. It follows naturally that as a church we 
need to preach with unabating zeal and devotion the 
Christian gospel of God's eternal righteousness as re- 
vealed by Jesus, that we may produce in the world purity 
of personal character, and general usefulness in life. 

Rev. John Franklin Schindler, 1857- 



Suite 23. 



3une 24. 



199 



Sum 25. 



To be reconciled to God, one must realize that he is the 
Father of all spirits ; that he loves all his children, and 
watches over them with the tenderest solicitude ; that he 
is seeking, through the varied discipline of life, through 
the ministry of adversity, affliction, and bereavement, to 
develop and cultivate their higher nature, and train them 
up for a near and intimate communion with himself. In 
one word, he must feel that every event that takes place 
in the universe is for the best, as it is soon to result in 
good ; and then he will be able to resign himself and all 
his interests into his Father's hands, and feel the peace 
and joy of reconciliation to his will. 

Rev. C W. Mellen, 1818-1866. 



Sunt 26. 



The conviction, arising from a firm confidence in 
Almighty goodness and justice, that death is only the ter- 
mination of an imperfect state of being, whose purpose 
cannot be fully carried out here, and that it is the passage 
to a better and a higher condition, should be so constantly 
present to us, that nothing should be able to obscure it, 
even for a moment : it is the groundwork of inward peace 
and of the loftiest endeavors, and is an inexhaustible 
spring of comfort in affliction. 

* Alexander von Humboldt, 1767-1835. 



Hunt 25. 



Hunc 26. 



3utu 27. 

Were there no other passages of the Bible handed down 
to us, but those which declare that God is our Father, and 
that his name is Love, these alone would be a sufficient 
foundation for the faith we cherish in regard to the final 
salvation of all souls. All his attributes, whatever they 
may be, must be subordinate to his love ; and since he 
is " good to all, and his tender-mercies are over all his 
works " now, as the Psalmist declares, we feel sure that 
such must be his disposition forever. However severe, 
therefore, his judgments may be, we may confidently 
assert, that, in the very nature of his disposition toward 
his children, eternal punishment of any of them would 
be an utter impossibility, since, if he were to inflict such 
a penalty, he would no longer deserve to be called "our 
Father/' 

Rev. Henry Kirke White, 1837- 

— jtane 28. 



" The love of Christ constraineth us." Here is the con- 
straint of love, the influence of a divine Saviour, whose 
love had become effective and powerful, resulting in 
repentance and obedience. And again says this apostle, 
" The goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance." 
More powerful than fear, more potent than terror, more 
effective than the proclamaiton of doom, the religion of 
the Son of God depends on love for its victories, and 
on the power of the cross of Christ throughout the ages 
for its most cheering and assuring triumphs. 

Rev. J. S. Cantwell, D.D., 1837- 



3une 27. 



3tme 28. 



203 



3nnz 29. 

A shattered wreck of mortal life 
Has drifted out beyond the strife ; 
No farewell word from ashy lips, 
No signals through the dull eclipse. 

With heart benumbed, and helpless hand, 
I tread in maze the chilling strand ; 
Oh for the glimmer of a trail, 
The beckon of a vanished sail ! 

A sudden light, a flashing beam 
Falls on the dark and sullen stream ; 
The soul from out that drifting wreck 
Stands winged upon the sinking deck. 

Our darling child with radiant face, 
And beautiful with heavenly grace, 
Has welcomed her, my sainted wife, 
Who mourned him so in this sad life. 

Rev. G. V. Maxham, 1^9- 



Rev. James Taylor, 1839- 



June 30. 



What is needed more than all else is the preaching of 
religion as Jesus preached it, — plain, simple, beautiful. 
Real religion has attraction for every human heart ; there 
is no subject that can be made more popular than reli- 
gion with the heart of Jesus in it ; there is no theme more 
practical or more sublime. Religion is life. So under- 
stood, it will stand on its own merits, and will attract . 
with an irresistible persuasiveness to itself. 

Rev. R. H. Pullman, 1826- 

It is undeniable that hope of the future adds to the value 
of the present, is a stimulus to a larger and healthier • 
growth in all the graces of true life. The prospect of 
carrying with us all our rich possessions of truth, wisdom, 
purity, and holiness, is a strong incentive to now secure 
the best possible attainments, and make life truly worth 
living. The hope of the future is a present inspiration. 
Rev. Andrew Willson, 1835- 



204 






3une 29 




fulp. 



June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers. 
. . . Ses where stands, 
Pausing, on tiptoe, with full flushing lips 
And outstretched arms, her sister, bright July, 
Eager to kiss the blossoms that will fade 
If her hot breath but touch them. 

Creator, Father ! thou art Nature's wealth ; 
Suns, blossoms, insects, worlds, and souls of men, 
Draw life's deep joy from thee, their treasury. 

Lucy Larcom. 

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh 
harvest ? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look 
on the fields, for they are white to harvest. — John iv. 35. 

There shall be one flock and one shepherd. — John x. 16. 



207 



Jlulg 1. 

The forces of evil are strong; human perversity is 
stubborn : but no argument for the eternal perpetuity of 
evil can be based on this concession. There might be, 
if the divine forces were capable of exhaustion, or had 
only time to work in ; but there can never be any abate- 
ment of their strength, nor can their processes be perma- 
nently interrupted. Besides, they have eternity for their 
sphere of operation ; and the now " irrepressible conflict n 
must at last ultimate in moulding all hearts and lives in 
the image of the Infinite Purity and Love. 

Rev. A. C. Barry, D.D., 1815- 

Here is a faith which will sustain its possessor in all 
the trials of life, and in the hour of death will light up 
his pathway to the tomb with the glorious assurance that 
this will not be his abiding place forever. 

Rev. Henry Lyon, 1814-1866. 

Mg 2. 



Eternal hell! — were such a belief possible, it would 
be fatal. Let the American people wake up with it to- 
morrow, and none of them would go to their fields, and 
none to their shops, and none would care for their homes. 
All interest in the things of earth would be dead. The 
whole nation would be struck with paralysis, and frozen 
with horror. Even the beginnings of such a belief would 
be too much for the safety of the brain ; and every step 
in that direction is a step toward the mad-house. The 
Orthodox preacher of an eternal hell would himself go 
crazy, did he believe his own preaching. 

Gerrit Smith, March 6, 1797-1874. 



208 



3ulg 3. 

Universalism and its doctrine of the future can alone 
answer the needs of the soul, or satisfy them with the 
rest and perfect peace promised in Christ. Universal- 
ism alone writes words of cheer in every sick-room, and 
above every dying-couch. Universalism alone illumes 
every dark hour with the light of God's purpose, and 
shows all mysteries resolved, all questions answered, 
all occasions of anxiety removed, in the sublime solu- 
tions of eternity, as all pain and sorrow and sin are 
made to result in good, and all souls are brought home. 
Universalism alone, therefore, has relief for every per- . 
plexity, hope triumphing over all despondency, and en- 
couragement to work, however labor may seem to be 
spent to no purpose, and seed sown only to die in the 
ground. . . . No seed of truth can ever die, no labor of 
love be expended for nought. 

Rev. O. A. Skinner, D.D., 1807-1S61. 
Rev. Nehemiah Dodge, 1770-1843. 

3uls 4. — 



Universalism is a far-reaching spirit of infinite good- 
ness, reaching out, and embracing all men, and laying 
them under its high and everlasting obligations ; and ac- 
cording to it, and under its guidance, everything is to 
rise into order and beauty and harmony the most divine. 
We can depend upon it as the salvation and glory and 
blessedness of the world. 

Rev. Homer Slade, 1819- 

Unless these slime-clogged nostrils can be made capa- 
ble of inhaling celestial air, I know not how the purest 
and most intellectual of us can reasonably expect ever to 
taste a breath of it. The whole question of eternity is 
staked here. If a single one of these little ones be lost, 
the world is lost. 

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1 804-1 864. 






Sfalg 5. 

We all know, that while children are easily discour- 
aged by having their best performances and attainments 
depreciated, and represented in an unfavorable light, 
an opposite course will inspire within them a feeling of 
virtuous emulation, cause them to put forth additional 
exertions, and induce them to exert all their powers in 
pressing forward in the march of improvement. And 
men are children of larger growth, and are discouraged 
by similar obstacles, and inspired with zeal by similar 
inducements. Hence it is evident, that, as Universalism 
represents human nature in a far more ennobling light 
than does any other religious system, it is far better to 
reform the vicious, and lead men to a closer approxima- 
tion to the purity of angelic character. 

Rev. H. L. Havward, 1S15- 
Rev. E. B. Gage, 1800-1874 

Mg 6. 



The whole religious world seems ready for the frank 
acceptance of the Universalist faith. The cause, not 
long since despised because it was small, or feared be- 
cause it was dangerous, has been recognized in the reli- 
gious world and in literature. The grand central truth 
of Universalism — that God's love is impartial and un- 
limited — has been generally accepted, and the church is 
beyond the struggling period. It has reached the time 
when it is summoned to take possession of a wider field. 

Rev. J. J. Lewis. 1S40- 



I 



3ulg 7. 



What shall I say of the beautiful home where those 
for whom we mourn have gone, and whither ourselves 
soon shall go ? — the home where God in his very pres- 
ence is, and the immaculate and loving Christ, and there 
are no more adversities and weeping. There, my 
friends, shall we be comforted in the immortal signifi- 
cance of the heavenly word. The sweep of ages shall 
bring no more harm to the heart ; its rest there comes, 
and its peace is eternal. 

Rev. Henry B. Soule, 1815-1852. 



3ulg 8. 



In all men there is some good thing, something that 
renders them worth saving. Men may be lost, but they 
are worth finding ; condemned and sold under sin, but 
they are worth redeeming. Jesus " knew what was in 
man," and therefore he saw the good at the core of 
every heart. And a part of his work was to teach us to 
see and acknowledge the same. Left to ourselves, we 
are too apt to see only the bad. But as Christians we 
must discern the good that is in every one, and learn to 
love and respect him in spite of the bad. And so, in our 
intercourse with men, the spirit of confidence and kind- 
ness will call forth what is best in them. Love is the 
sceptre of power and influence. It is the secret of 
making men better, and of leading them to the king- 
dom of Christ. 

Rev. George Hill, 1825- 



214 



3ulg 9. 

Fancy, most licentious on such themes, 

Where decent reverence well had kept her mute, 

Hath o'erstocked hell with devils, and brought down 

By her enormous fablings and mad lies 

Discredit on the gospel's serious truths 

And salutarv fears. 

Blessed be God, 
The measure of his judgments is not fixed 
By man's erroneous standard. He discerns 
No such inordinate difference and vast 
Betwixt the sinner and the saint, to doom 
Such disproportioned fates. 

Charles Lamb, Feb. 18, 1775-1834. 

Mjj 10. 

God's fatherly love for every soul is a thing indestruc- 
tible and infinite. It is of that nature that no weakness, 
imperfection, or sin in us can destroy or diminish it. He 
loves the humblest and meanest on earth just as much 
as he does the highest and holiest in heaven. He loves 
the sinner just as well and as unalterably as he does the 
saint, in this world and in all worlds. Love may mani- 
fest itself in tenderness and blessing in the one case, and 
in severity and fearful penalties in the other ; but it is 
love just the same, and never hate. It punishes that it 
may save, and salvation must be the final consummation 
of God's dealings with every soul. That is Christianity; 
that is the great hope of the gospel ; that is the al- 
mighty power and grace of God. 

Rev. James Gorton, 183 i- 



216 



Mg 11. ■ 

Thou, whose wide-extended sway 
Suns and systems e'er obey, 
Thou, our Guardian and our Stay, 

Evermore adored ; 
In prospective, Lord, we see 
Jew and Gentile, bond and free, 
Reconciled in Christ to thee, 

Holy, holy Lord ! 

When destroying Death shall die, 
Hushed be every rising sigh, 
Tears be wiped from every eye, 

Nevermore to fall ; 
Then shall praises fill the sky, 
And angelic hosts shall cry, 
" Holy, holy Lord, most high, 

Thou art all in all ! " 

Rev. Abel Charles Thomas, 1807-18 

3 U I S 12. — 



I have always had a growing love for the beautiful in 
both nature and art. A beautiful landscape charms me, 
a rare piece of statuary or a picture holds me spell-bound. 
But nothing in nature or art so charms me, and fills me 
with joy, as the picture I mentally paint of the whole 
human family saved from sin, and perfectly holy and 
happy. I do not see how God's nature can be vindi- 
cated and the wants of my own nature met, unless this 
picture is to finally become a reality. 

Rev. A. Tibbetts, 1832- 
Rev. Seth Stetson, 1776-1868. 



2l8 




219 



3ulg 13. 



We believe in the ultimate salvation of all souls, be- 
cause all souls will finally become obedient to Christ. 
Universal holiness rests upon the basis of universal obe- 
dience. In our theology, therefore, Jesus is the central 
fact, the keystone of the arch, the representative of 
the Father. With us, Jesus is no mere man ; nor is he 
simply the greatest and best of men. He is also the 
shrine and organ of God. He is not simply the light, 
but the life, and the Saviour, of the world. He is not the 
Almighty, not the Absolute One, but, since he possessed 
the spirit of the infinite Father without measure such as 
man can mete, he is at once divine and at once human, 
qualified thus to mediate between God and man, and to 
be the channel for the transmission of God's mercy and 
loving-kindness to the world. 

Rev. W. H. Ryder, D.D., 1822- 



Mg 14. 



Little that is good or great is accomplished in life with- 
out sacrifice. Without it, affection would lack its needed 
ministries ; friendship, the proof of its existence ; and 
devotion, the seal of its faithfulness to truth and duty. 
Religion as grossly conceived of and practised consists 
mainly in votive offerings ; and in its highest conception 
and practice but converts its constant sacrifice into the joy 
of love and faith. Jesus, the founder of the perfect reli- 
gion, exemplified the great fact and duty of sacrifice, and 
has made the cross under which the bending form was 
crushed, and upon which it was extended in death, to be- 
come the symbol of triumph and the hope of the world. 
Rev. James P. Weston, D. D., 1815- 



3ulg 15. 



An optimist maybe wrong; but presumption and reli- 
gion are in his favor ; nor can we directly pronounce any- 
thing to be for final evil until the end of all things has 
arrived, and the whole scheme of creation is revealed to 
us. Does not every architect complain of the injustice of 
criticising a building before it is half finished ? Yet who 
can tell what volume of the creation we are in at present, 
or what point the structure of our moral fabric has at- 
tained ? Whilst we are all in a vessel that is sailing under 
sealed orders, we shall do well to confide implicitly in our 
government and captain. 

Paul Chatfield. 



3ulg 16. 



When, after long struggles, through ways of dark- 
ness, with no one to counsel, a child in a school of an 
opposite faith, I came to a knowledge of this great truth, 
it seemed to me a foregone conclusion that there could 
be nothing in this world for me to do but to give my pow- 
ers and my life to the promulgation of the great, the glo- 
rious truth, which is the one thing which this world needs 
to bring to us the dawn of the millennium morning. And 
I look to the influence of woman in the future, — added to 
the influence of our brother-man, who has so long and so 
grandly worked, — as she shall wisely use the abilities 
which God has given her, to hasten on the time when we 
shall everywhere hear the triumphal notes of the gospel, 
and the hosts of Zion shall go forth to victory ; when the 
kingdoms of this world shall be subdued, and become 
the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Rev. Augusta J. Chapin, A.M., 1836- 



3ulg 15. 



Mp 16. 



223 



Mg 17. 



Orthodoxy assumes that men are here forming charac- 
ters for eternity. And the character which Universaiism 
will form when it is received as a practical life-principle, 
the love of God for what he is, and the love of righteous- 
ness for its own and Christ's sake — this character will be 
of all things most desirable for all eternity. Those nomi- 
nal Christians who tell us, that, if it were not for the fear 
of hell, they would give free reign to lust and passion 
when they bow before the eternal throne, if they are not 
changed, know that their vacant, graceless souls are naked 
to the All-seeing Eye ; ashamed of themselves, they will 
look for hiding-places, as did the first pair in Eden. But 
they will be changed ; the light of infinite grace will fill 
their souls with love, and, in the consciousness of much 
forgiven, they will love much. 

Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, D.D., 1798-1866. 

Rev. W. Y. EMMETT, 1798-1873. 

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We are prompted to ask many questions that find no 
adequate answer, only as we conclude that a good Being 
rules, and that which began well must be successful. 

The Scriptures will not warrant any special class of 
mankind in appropriating the Bible promises and hopes 
to themselves. They belong to all, and, if any do not 
now embrace and enjoy them, it is their misfortune. 

Did the result depend on us. we could very readily pre- 
dict a failure. " Which shall be glad tidings to all." " Hope 
thou in God, for I shall yet praise hi7n." These are the 
assurances that have greatly comforted and sustained peo- 
ple in the trials and difficulties of life. All Christians 
come here for peace and repose. 

Rev. Henry Jewell, 1812- 



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225 



ihtlg 19. 



A perfect life is not attained in a day. Men cannot cut 
cross lots, or take an air-line for the kingdom of heaven. 
If we had our way, we should have the bud, the blossom, 
and the ripened fruit at the same time. But this is not 
God's method. He gives us u first the blade, then the 
ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear." 

Character is a growth, and it requires time to perfect 
the full rounded Christian. 

Rev. D. C. Tomlinson, July 27, 1824-1881. 



3ulg 20. 



" Now we have received the spirit of love," that we might 
know and rightly interpret the full meaning of God's love 
commended to sinners through the one offering of Jesus. 
Being from Him who is love, it is truly a love-offering' to 
sinners, to turn them from things hateful and hurtful. 

By this spirit " we joy (rejoice) ' also ' in God, through 
Christ, by whom we have received the at-one-ment." We 
rejoice because we are made to know that love and spirit 
are a working force that will work " till we all come into 
the unity (oneness) of the spirit." Oh ! that will be joy- 
ful. It certainly will be, as " God is in Christ reconciling 
the world unto himself." 

Rev. D. R. Biddlecome, 1805- 

Rev. W. SISSON, 1845-1S80. 



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— Saw the grand, gradual picture grow, — 
The covenant with human kind 

Which God has made — the chains of Fate, 
He round himself and them hath twined, 

Till his high task he consummate, 
Till good from evil, love from hate, 
Shall be worked out through sin and pain, 
And Fate shall loose her iron chain, 
And all be free, be bright again. 

Thomas Mcore, May 28, 1779-1852. 
Rev. A. F. ROOT, 1814-1875. 



Sulrj 22. 



I apprehend, that, could we understand the councils of 
the Most High, we should plainly discover that most of 
what is done in the outward world is induced by moral 
considerations. The sun shines and the rain falls, not 
wholly to give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, 
but, through these benefactions, to lead intelligent minds 
up through Nature to Nature's God, and thus to elevate 
them in the scale of moral and spiritual excellence. And, 
if the outward blessings of life have an ulterior moral 
purpose, it is quite as reasonable to conclude that out- 
ward afflictions are employed for the punishment of sin, 
to correct our faults, and improve our virtues. 

* Rev. W. E. Manley, D.D. 



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Mb 22. 



229 



Mg 23. 

Universalism saves bv what it affirms rather than by 
what it denies. We may deny that God is a tyrant ; but 
there is no redemptive potency in that. We must believe 
that he is a Father before our hearts can go out to him 
in filial love. We may deny that God ever can by any 
possibility hate any of his children, be they ever so sin- 
ful ; but such denial has no power to awaken a soul to a 
sense of its sinfulness, and to press home effectually the 
claims of God upon its loyalty, and the supremacy of its 
love. 

We must believe in his great sacrifice on the cross be- 
fore we can thoroughly arouse from our stupor, forsake 
our sins, and turn in tearful penitence to the cross. So 
true it is that only in the positive teachings of our faith 
does redemptive force reside. 



Rev. Edwin Thompson, 1809- 
Rev. B. F. ROGERS, 1831- 



Rev. Calvin Damon, July 24- 



Jhtlg 24. 



Judgment and correction are twin -born. They were 
conceived in the inner heart of hearts. They are born of 
a mother's tender love for her child, of the law's regard 
for its subjects, of the great Father's affection for his off- 
spring. Judgment is not the culmination of human his- 
tory. It is the concomitant of accountability. And all 
men will be accountable as long as they have a spiritual 
Ruler higher than themselves. "Eternal judgment," 
therefore, is the better phrase, and the biblical one too. 
Judgment precedes correction, and correction is the 
mother of righteousness. Judgment, then, is a guide to 
the gravitating power which wins all souls to the Father. 
It is not our enemy. It is no less a friend than the grace 
of God. It is a beneficent angel to mankind. 

Rev. Aaron A. Thayer, A.M., 1825- 
Rev. J. O. EMERY, 1801-1874. 



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3ulg 25. 

It is one of the remarkable facts in the study of Uni- 
versal ism, that while the name and dogmatic form are so 
generally rejected, and sometimes so fiercely denounced, 
many of its essential ideas and principles are to be found 
pervading the opinions, moral effects, and richest expe- 
riences of all sects, the vital and most effective elements 
of all Christian faith, philanthropy, and life. Destroy 
Universalism, and, so far as their definite and harmo- 
nious doctrinal statements are concerned, we should see 
a commotion and hear lamentations such as were never 
before witnessed in the churches. The disciples of 
the severest and of the most liberal creed would alike 
mourn the loss of what is most precious in their faith, 
and, pining especially for that which had been their best 
helper in weakness and sorrow, they would cry with 
Mary, " They have taken away my Lord, and I know not 
where they have laid him. 19 • 

Rev. E. G. Brooks, D.D., July 29, 1816-1878. 



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Our faith has begun a new and glorious triumph. It 
believes infinitely more in growing into heaven than going 
to heaven ; it says, Growth into a Christian character is 
heaven. It says, The golden age of the world is now, 
that every to-day is better than yesterday, and every to- 
morrow will be better than to-day ; and that forever and 
forever the world's golden age will be its now. To me this 
belief and this life is the best phase of Universalism. 

Rev. N. A. Saxton, 1832- 



3ulg 25. 



3ulp 26. 



2 33 



Mg 27. 



There was never a human body so depraved in its 
habits as not to delight in the bath: faces and hands 
can hardly be found so soiled as not to say, " Wash me." 
So there is always a moral feeling in the natural soul 
which prays, "Cleanse me from my sins." And this 
proves that sin is not constitutional ; that we were 
formed with reference to a life of purity ; that the ori- 
ginal powers of our nature look toward holiness. This 
power, however, to be complete master, needs the assist- 
ance of the Holy Spirit. Human nature is incapable of 
saving itself: hence a Saviour has been provided for it. 
Human nature will remain the same in the future world : 
it will continue eternally " personal and free." The 
mission of Christ and of the Holy Spirit will also extend 
into the future world: hence the ultimate salvation of 
mankind. 

Rev. J. H. Tuttle, D.D., 1824- 
Rev. N. CRARY, 1823- 



MS 28. 



That the mind of man is capable of enlargement, that 
its perception of truth may acquire clearness and strength 
by continued exercise, and that we may advance in the 
knowledge of any subject of our consideration, in propor- 
tion as we study it minutely and extensively — these are 
facts, that few if any will feel disposed to deny. They 
will certainly be admitted in all scientific concerns ; and 
we can conceive no sufficient reason why religion should 
be made an exception to the general laws, whose opera- 
tion is so apparent in all subordinate affairs. Truth, we 
know, is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever ; but 
the recipients of truth are. not always in the same con- 
dition. 

Rev. Edward Turner, 1776-1853. 
Carlos D. Stuart, 18201862. 
Rev. Z. H. Howe, 1818-1876. 



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3ulg 29. 

The worth of Universalism is implied in the name. 
It is all-inclusive. It embraces good as the highest 
object of attainment. It makes evil, not an end, but a 
stepping-stone to good. It presents God as a universal 
Father, constantly seeking his children's welfare. It 
makes the human race his children, degraded, it may be, 
but, if so, to be assuredly elevated and improved. It 
makes the atonement a simple, natural process. It dis- 
closes an immortality of spiritual activity which satisfies 
the aspirations of the human soul. It is scriptural and 
reasonable. It is without a peer in the realm of faith. 
Rev. William Wallace Lovejoy, 183 i- 

It is our privilege to approach scepticism as St. Paul 
approached 'the Athenian multitudes, aiming to find out 
first the things for which both have regard, and then, 
by the ways of reason, to lead on the sceptic to the strong 
places of faith. If sceptical minds are ever to be reached, 
I am persuaded they must be reached by manifesting 
such a spirit. The time is past, if it ever was, when 
scepticism can be cured by calling hard names. The 
church that resorts to such a method is doomed to fail- 
ure. With a reasonable religion we may, if we will, 
enter the dark regions of doubt, and exorcise the demon. 
Moreover, if the attention of the indifferent is ever to be 
arrested, it must be by the strong light of a reasonable 
faith. It is ours to present such an interpretation of 
Christian truths, that the mind and the heart of man 
have only clearly to apprehend it, and they will be taken 
captive by the image. 

Rev. H. I. Cushman, 1844- 

Endless punishment, to my mind, is but another name 
for atheism. If it can be proved that one soul out of 
all these myriads shall remain eternally miserable, end- 
lessly sinful, then it is likewise proved that there is no 
God. 

Rev. T. C. Druley, 1842- 
Rev. J. C. Sawyer, 1818-1877. 



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3ulg 30. 



God will have praise. His truth in Jesus will. If it 
be not hailed and welcomed in one way, it will be in an- 
other. If the voices of this multitude in its favor are 
suppressed, another will yet come with its hosannas, or 
even the very stones will proclaim them. You cannot 
cheat the world out of God's reign in it. That " was, 
and is, and is to come." Better strive to do something 
towards preparing the way. The kingdom of which 
Christ was founder is all-conquering. Humanity as one 
shall be drawn to him. " Worlds unborn shall sing his 
glory." 

Rev. John G. Adams, D.D., 1810- 
Rev. J. S. Gledhill, 1848- 



3ulg 31. 

God's knowledge, power, and love run parallel from 
the foundation of the world. God loves the human race 
on both sides of the grave. He will pursue men with 
his love till they all come to him and dwell. His love 
can never be changed and never exhausted. Man is a 
child of God, and will never be permitted to wander from 
God's sight. Man can see but a little way : God sees 
all things. Man is finite ; but God is infinite. Man is 
weak : God is strong. He shall speak to every man, 
and every man shall hear. Nothing can change his pur- 
poses, nor destroy his plans. 

Let us, therefore, believe in the universal Saviour, 
who lived for all, who spoke to all, who died for all, 
whose spirit shall touch all, and save all. 

Rev. George L. Perin, 1854- 



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239 



3Uugu£t 



The hot midsummer, the bright midsummer, 

Reigns in its glory now : 
The earth is scorched with a golden fire, 
There are berries, dead-ripe, on every brier, 

And fruits on every bough. 

R. H. Stoddard. 

Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall 
be satisfied therewith. — Joel ii. 19. 

Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man 
soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh 
shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the 
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. — Gal. vi. 7, 8. 

He will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the 
knowledge of the truth. — 1 Tim. ii. 4. 



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august 1. 

That which has been the inspiration and joy of my 

life during a ministry of nearly thirty-eight years has 

been the sweet assurance of the perfect goodness and 

wisdom of God, and of his unchanging good-will toward 

men. I have not doubted his fatherly love for the race, 

nor his personal interest in me. I have felt he is always 

working^/*?;- us, and never against us really. The wealth 

and beauty of nature, sunshine and shower, calm and 

storm, his chastening rod and supporting staff, precepts 

and commandments, and the precious gift of Jesus — all 

are but the varied expressions of his love and care. As 

he is ever thus working for us, so whenever we accept 

his spirit, and obey his voice, we are working for him, 

and are co-laborers with Jesus. 

Rev. J. W. McM aster, 1822- 
Rev. Moses Park, 1766-1817. 

— : — august 2. — 



O Love, O Grace divine, 
Nought doth thy hand restrain, 
Sweeping accordant strings. 
"■All souls, all souls are mine ! " 
The jubilant refrain, 
Glad earth with heaven sings. 

No soul forever dumb, 
Or voiced in pain, shall mar 
Thy choral song of praise ; 
But sin-freed, all shall come, 
While radiant star to star 
Sings of thy perfect ways. 

Rev. Ada C. Bowles, 1836- 



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august 2. 



243 



Sugust 3. 

Religion is for practical purposes in this life. It is 
true it lifts the clouds of despondency, and kindles the 
fires of hope, by pointing us to that immortality which 
the gospel of Christ reveals ; but its legitimate office is 
to map out for us the "way of life." It warns us of the 
quagmires of sin, because in sinning we must suffer, and 
beckons us along the flowery paths of righteousness, be- 
cause they will lead us beside the still waters of joy, 
where our souls may repose in undisturbed peace and 
heavenly rest. 

The "law" was given to man for this purpose. It 
deprives us of no real pleasure or gratification, and is the 
outcome of Infinite Love, conceived by Infinite Wisdom 
for our best good. 

Rev. W. S. Goodell, Aug. 2, 1824- 



August 4. 



Universalism gives to man a perfect God, with perfect 
plans, adjustments, and administrations, perfect laws 
perfectly executed, producing a result as perfect as phi- 
lanthropy itself could desire. It gives a perfect Saviour, 
whose mission of love, and labors of mercy, must bring 
all souls into God's perfectness. Its administrations, so 
nicely adjusted and perfectly balanced, mete out to all 
according to their deeds ; for it thus binds sin to misery, 
virtue to happiness, in sure recompense, to work our 
heavenly Father's perfect love in his children. Hence 
it is perfect as a system, giving perfect faith, hope, guid- 
ance, and consolation ; for it thrills all the chords of the 
soul with the electric harmony of eternity's glory. 

Rev. M. G. Todd, 1821- 



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august 3. 



August 4. 



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August 5. : 

God's design for his intelligent creatures is that they 
shall come into voluntary harmony with himself. The 
law or method of God's work and rule is adapted to 
this great end. The Psalmist truly says, " The law of 
the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." It works in 
the being of every man for this end. It never ceases to 
work thus till this end is attained. The law of God is 
so adapted to man's agency as to succeed in leading it 
to a pure and divine exercise ; and so neither is God's 
design to save all thwarted, nor man's agency violated 
Both are maintained while man is brought to w T ill ac- 
cording to God's will, and to delight in union with God 
as the great end of his being and as the highest happi- 
ness of which his nature is susceptible. 

Rev. J. M ERR I FIELD, 1818- 

August 6. 



All tend to perfect happiness, and urge 
The restless wheels of being on their way, 
Whose flashing spokes, instinct with infinite life, 
Bicker and burn to gain their destined goal ; 
For birth but w 7 akes the spirit to the sense 
Of outward shows, whose unexperienced shape 
New modes of passion to its frame may lend ; 
Life is its state of action, and the store 
Of all events is aggregated there, 
That variegate the eternal universe ; 
Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom, 
That leads to azure isles, and beaming skies, 
And happy regions of eternal hope. 

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Aug. 4, 1792-1S22. 



246 



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August 6. 



247 



August 7. 



Hei)nga7ig ! We are all so weary, 

And the willows, as they wave. 
Softly sighing, sweetly dreary, 

Woo us to the tranquil grave. 
When the golden pitcher 's broken, 

With its dregs and with its foam, 
And the tender words are spoken, 

" Heimgang /" We are going home. 

* A. J. H. DUGANNE, XS23- 



august 8. 



The whole problem of our future condition resolves 
itself into this alternative, — Universalism, or Atheis?n. 
If*' God is love," it must be that he " will have all men 
to be saved, and come unto the knowledge of the truth M 
(1 Tim. ii. 4) ; and, "if the Lord be God," he certainly 
"worketh all things after the counsel of his own will " 
(Eph. i. 11), and " doeth according to his will in the 
army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth " 
(Dan. iv. 35) : therefore, "if the Lord be God," Univer- 
salism must be true ; if not, Atheism. Which will it 

be? 

Rev. Samuel Ashton, 1S12- 



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august 9. 



There is a great movement going on, deeper than most 
of us are aware of; but this movement will not be stayed 
any more than Luther was, its prophet. Luther, little as 
he knew of ultimate results, was its beginning. When 
his work completes itself, we shall get back to a Chris- 
tianity free from corruptions, free from empty dogmatism, 
full of hope, vigorous, no longer apologetic, but aggres- 
sive, like the Christianity of the Day of Pentecost and 
of the Universalist Christian fathers of the first thr»ee 
centuries. Luther did not see our day ; but it was Lu- 
ther himself who said, " Now see and learn, Christian 
reader, by my case, how difficult it is to cast off and get 
free from such errors as the whole world confirms by its 
example, and which by long habit have become second 
nature." 

Rev. Dwight M. Hodge, 1846- 
Rev. M. G. Mitchell, 1812-1878. 



august 10. 



To give my counsels all in one, 
Thy tuneful flame still careful fan ; 
Preserve the dignity of man 

With soul erect, 
And trust the universal plan 

Will all protect. 

Robert Burns, Jan. 25, 1759-1796. 



Rev. T. H. Miller, 1801-1870. 



250 



august 9. 



2tojjuat 10. 



251 



August 11. 



The destinies of men are in the hands of One who 
never errs, never does wrong, never suffers the good 
to perish or the evil finally to prevail. He gives all the 
powers of nature to be the allies of the soul that speaks 
the truth, and labors for the right. But he commissions 
all the elements to strive with the unfaithful, as the stars 
in their courses fought against Sisera. All that is true, 
he will perpetuate ; all that is excellent, he will pre- 
serve ; all that is worthy, he will crown with glory. 
But the arm of the Most High is lifted up, his judgment 
has gone forth against all evil. He has pronounced its 
doom, has ordained its end. Let man be slow to wrestle 

with the unchanging law. 

Rev. Orren Perkins, 1823-1880. 
Rev. Joseph crehore, 1829- 

— &U£USt 12. 



What though at birth we bring with us the seed 

Of sin, a mortal taint, in heart and will 

Too surely felt, too plainly shown in deed, — 

Our fatal heritage ; yet are we still 

The children of the All-Merciful ; and ill 

They teach who tell us that from hence must flow 

God's wrath, and then, his justice to fulfil, 

Death everlasting, never-ending woe. 

Oh, miserable lot of man, if it were so ! 

Robert Southey, 1774-1843. 

Mrs. E. OAKES SMITH, J806- 



252 



august 11. 



August 12. 



253 



August 13. 



An important work will be done toward the saving of 
this world and the saving of every soul in it, when intem- 
perance and licentiousness and gambling, and all forms 
of oppression, and all other great moral evils, are done 
away. Every dram-shop, every gambling hell, every ally 
of intemperance, or gambling, or licentiousness that ex- 
ists, is a force working against the cause of universal 
salvation ; and in the degree that we give it any coun- 
tenance or support we are working against the will of 
God. When we profess belief in the final salvation of 
all ; when we declare it to be God's will, and then 
give countenance to, or fail to contend against, anything 
that corrupts morals, or deadens spiritual life — is there 
any greater impiety than that ? 

* Rev. D. B. Clayton. 
Rev. Hexry Blanchard, 1833- 

Ilttgxigt 14. 



Home is where the heart is. But we cannot keep 
our dear ones there ; our arms cannot hold them. There 
are empty chairs in the home ; and voices we have loved 
to hear are silent. We shall find them all in heaven. 
In the churchyard, by gray headstones, in graves fragrant 
with flowers, and dewy with tears — do you think they 
sleep there ? No, no. The body to dust, the spirit to 
God who gave it. The home circles will be filled again. 
We shall meet our friends there. And the circle shall 
not be broken. With arms extended wide, they will 
meet us. Beyond the rushing waters shall we not catch 
the gleaming of their white robes, as they beckon to us 
from the other shore ? Shall we not hear them singing 
the old songs — songs of welcome ? Lo ! they crowd to 
the river's bank, and watch us with joy as we cross. 

* Rev. G. H. VlBBERT. 



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August 13. 



August 14. 



2 SS 



atigugt 15. 



That which God's judgment decrees, his power effects. 
That which love demands, justice commends. As the 
best possible expression of this perfect nature, Christ 
uses the term " Our Father." Take the noblest earthly 
parent, strong and beautiful in body, with acute and well 
balanced mind, a soul pure and upright, give him the 
utmost patience, the exactest justice, the holiest love, 
and then increase these virtues infinitely, and you have 
the best suggestion of the God of Christ and the gospel. 
Rev. Charles H. Eaton, 1852- 

God works slowly, but in the end accomplishes his 
purpose. He was millions of years preparing this earth 
for man. And he may take millions of years to raise a 
depraved son of Adam into one of angelic sensibilities 
and hopes ; but his moral government is working for 
this end, and he will reach this acme of moral elevation 
in his own good time. 

Rev. S. G. Davis, 1846- 
Rev. Davis Bacon, 1813-1871. 

august 16. 



I was brought up strictly a Methodist, commenced 
preaching Universalism in 1842, have contended ear- 
nestly for the faith since then, never wavering or halting ; 
and now, in my old age, I have the extreme pleasure of 
seeing its glorious truths embraced and cherished by 
many of the brightest scholars and best men of the age. 
" Bless the Lord, oh, my soul." 

Rev. D. P. Bunn, 1812- 



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August 15. 



Sugnst 16. 



Sugust 17. 

From the beginning to the end of the sacred volume, 
the tone is the same. The prophecy to the first pair, of 
the destruction of evil ; the patriarchal promise, indorsed 
by an apostolic interpretation, of universal blessing 
through Christ ; the ever-enduring nature of divine mercy, 
as announced by the Psalmist ; the flowing of all nations 
into the house of the Lord, and the wi ping-away of 
tears from off all faces, which so kindled the enthusi- 
asm of Isaiah; the giving of all peoples, nations, and 
languages into the everlasting dominion of the Son of 
man, so grandly foretold by Daniel ; the destruction of 
death and hell predicted by Hosea, conforming to the 
faith of St. Paul, that mortality shall be swallowed up in 
life; the calling of the Anointed of God, Jesus, because 
he shall save his people from their sins ; his tasting death 
for every man, giving himself a ransom for all ; his as- 
surance, that if he should be lifted up from the earth he 
would draw all men unto himself; Paul's rendering of it 
(Phil. ii. 8-n), u wherefore God also hath highly exalted 
him, and given him a name which is above every name ; 
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of 
things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under 
the earth; and that every tongue should confess that 
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father ; " 
and, above all, the Revelator's vision, u And every crea- 
ture which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the 
earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in 
them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and 
power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and 
unto the Lamb for ever and ever," — all, all, are but 
parts of one great whole ; all are varying harmonies upon 
the same keynote. 

Rev. A. A. Miner, D.D., LL.D., 1814- 



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259 



August 18. 



Universalism, in my personal interpretation of it, is 
more than a faith as to the end of things. It is not 
only a faith as to the outcome of God's work, but as to 
the beginning and the way, as well. It denies, not sim- 
ply the Orthodox doctrine of God's failure at the end, 
but the Orthodox doctrine of God's failure at the begin- 
ning, or anywhere. My Universalism is belief, not only 
that all will be well, but that all was well at the begin- 
ning, and always has been well. 

Rev. George William Kent- 



August 19. 



Divine grace is free, impartial, and unmerited, and is 
the great doctrine of reason and revelation. As the light 
of the sun shines around the earth and all its clouds 
and shadows, so divine grace is all-surrounding and all- 
pervading. 

Like copious showers of rain upon the thirsty earth, it 
descends upon a sin-stained world in its sanctifying and 
saving power. 

Gentle as the distilling dew, or like the still small 
voice, and yet more powerful than the earthquake or the 
blinding storm, it is complete, universal, and triumphant. 
How vast and animating the thought that none are, and 
never will be, excluded from God's love and care, but 
that all shall serve and taste the fulness of his love ! 
Rev. W. W. Merritt, Aug. 20, 1832- 

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3ugtt0t 19. 



261 



august 20. 



The destructive tendencies of the present are fatal 
only to error and superstition and dogma; while truth, 
faith, love, the brotherhood, the fatherhood, and immor- 
tality — these remain to shed through all ages a higher 
dignity, a nobler lustre, upon human nature. The local 
and limited, the false and temporary, disappear; while, 
rising out of the havoc and ruin that men are making 
in the old dogmatic world, already begin to appear 
the more graceful proportions of that fairer temple of 
the future, in which men shall render a higher and more 
spiritual devotion than the world has ever experienced. 
Let us have faith, then, in the eternal God of all ages, in 
whose love we rest, and by whose wisdom and justice 
humanity is led along the way of development, ever 
sloping upward to the light. 

Rev. L. J. Dinsmore, Aug. 21, 1851- 

August 21. 

The fiery process which burns up the sinner saves the 
man. The crucible which consumes the dross leaves 
behind the pure gold. So Christ sits as a refiner and 
purifier, not the annihilator, of silver. If it were pos- 
sible so to do, the assayer would show great folly in 
making his fire hot enough to utterly consume the pre- 
cious metal itself. What should we say of that theology, 
then, which charges a like act upon God? 

Rev. T. H. Tabor, 1824- 

If I were to make a new symbol of death, I would 
not put in the scythe, and make a grinning skeleton, but 
rather, I would make it the embodiment of motherhood, 
with great lustrous, gleaming eyes, afire with the mys- 
tery of the land she sees through them, and with a 
mother's arms stretching down to the earth, because 
God has taught her that it is the only way in which she 
can lead her children into the better land. 

Rev. J. M. Pullman, D.D., 1836- 

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August 21. 



263 



August 22. 



The history of the church of Christ shows us clearly, 
that as the dark ages settled down upon the world, 
and heathen doctrines became more and more incorpo- 
rated with Christianity, the great central truth of Uni- 
versalism was lost sight of, and life was a hopeless 
struggle for nearly all the human race. But through all 
these years there were a few pious and learned men, who 
kept this " larger hope " in their hearts, and believed 
that the cross will conquer. The cross of Christ, the 
emblem of God's free and efficient grace, is to-day the 
world's great hope, and Christianity's sure defence 
against all her foes. 

Rev. Henry Force Millek, A.M., 1829- 



Slugust 23. 



All forms of religion must have faith at their founda- 
tion. But faith is presented to us by Christian professors 
in two forms. First, a faith that is formulated by men; 
and, on the condition that we accept this faith, we are 
promised a reward. This reward does not exist in fact, 
nor can it be a truth to us, only so far as we make it so 
by our faith in it. This would appear to be faith in 
nothing. But, strange to sav, this nothing is supposed 
to become something by believing it. Second, gospel 
faith is faith in something that does and must exist as 
an eternal truth, independent of faith. The first is vision- 
ary; but the second is simply the application of a truth 

that already exists. 

Rev. S. Binns, Aug. 22, 1816- 



264 



August 22. 



August 23. 



265 



August 24. 



Christianity is the embodiment of the doctrines of 
Christ ; and, since it is a universal religion, it must have 
the good of all in view, and consequently it is unhersal 
in its practical applications. If it seeks the highest wel- 
fare of all men, how can it be anything else than Uni- 
versalism, since this doctrine inculcates the final holiness 
and happiness of all through the power and influence of 
the gospel ? 

Rev. N. C. Hodgdon, 1S1 8-1880. 
Rjv. S. P. Landers, 1812-1876. 



August 25. 



By Universalism we understand the acknowledgment 
of love as the highest principle in the moral universe. 
All our distinctive tenets are but the results of this divine 
law, — " God is love/' Love is the only moral power in 
the universe : therefore it must be sufficient to overcome 
all sin. It is the highest state of the soul, the only con- 
dition upon which its faculties can act harmoniously: 
therefore it must be the last result of all religious cul- 
ture. A living faith in this principle, as means and end 
in the progressive training of man, entitles any one to 
our denominational name. We believe that society is 
tending to this centre of all true civilization ; that litera- 
ture is imbibing more of its spirit; and that the iron 
theology of the past age is slowly unclinching its grasp 
upon mankind, and losing its strength before this sub- 
duing power. 

* Rev. A. D. Mayo. 



266 



August 24. 



August 25. 



267 



august 26. 



This much we know, that God will be true, whosoever 
may become a liar. We may doubt the Church, we may 
doubt human nature, in many of their manifestations ; but 
the Lord we cannot doubt. He has promised to consum- 
mate his purposes, and this he will do ; and some people 
or church will be his instrument. We know not abso- 
lutely on whom this glorious election will fall ; but this 
we know, that the people who serve not his designs will 
be scattered in disgrace and dismay, whjle those who co- 
operate with his purposes, and respond to the contact of 
his spirit, and do his work, will live by his breath, and 
shine like the stars in heaven. 

*Rev. E. W. Reynolds, 1828-1867. 



August Ti 



Earnest, faithful, thoughtful women, 

Listen to our earnest call 
As we plead for those less favored, 

Who are still in error's thrall. 

To those tones so sweet and tender 

Uttered centuries ago, 
Can we not hear sweetest echoes 

While relieving human woe ? 

Hearts are heavy, souls are darkened, ■ 
Spirits shrouded deep in gloom, 

Waiting for our glorious gospel, 
Which can glorify the tomb. 

Elizabeth E. Sawyer, 1822- 



Rev, C. W. TOMLINSON. 



268 



August 26, 



August 27. 



269 



august 28. 



I ask no one to pronounce, for I dare not pronounce 
myself, what are the possibilities of resistance in a hu- 
man will to the loving will of God. There are times 
when they seem to me, thinking of myself more than 
others, almost infinite. But I know there is something 
which must be infinite. I am obliged to believe in an 
abyss of love which is deeper than the abyss of death. I 
dare not lose faith in that love. I sink into death, eternal 
death, if I do. I must feel that this love is encompassing 
the universe. More about it I cannot know ; but God 
knows. I leave myself and all with him. 

Rev. J. F. D. Maurice, 1806- 



auguat 29. 



A theology based upon the assumption that the All -wise 
Creator is continually ravelling out his work in order to 
pick up dropped stitches is one which poorly satisfies the 
thoughtful mind. Religion, to be helpful, must be hope- 
ful. Hope is not satisfied with possibilities. So the gos- 
pel lesson is, that the lost will be sought, found, and 
borne to the fold of safety. Then hope ends in fruition. 
Love is imperious in its demands, inexorable in its 
decrees. R ev . H. D. L. Webster, 1824- 

And we are happy in believing that all events, how- 
ever mysterious and inscrutable to us they may appear, 
are wisely ordained, consistent with Infinite Goodness, 
and under the restraining and controlling influence of 
Almighty Power ; 

" God nothing does, or suffers to be done, 
But we would do ourselves, could we but see 
The end of all events as well as he." 

Rev. Calvin Gardner, 1798-1865. 
Rev. E. M. Grant, 1857- 

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August 29. 



271 



August 30. 



That one unquestioned text we read, 
All doubt beyond, all fear above; 

Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed 
Can burn or blot it, — God is love. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Aug. 29, 1809- 

These grosser regions yield 
Souls thick as blossoms of the vernal field, 
Who after death, in relative degree, 
Fairer or darker, as their lives may be, 
To other worlds are led to learn and strive, 
Till to perfection all at last arrive. 
This once conceived, the ways of God are plain. 

Nor more nor less, for the Almighty still 
Suits to our life the goodness and the ill. 

* James Hogg, 1772-1835. 

august 31. — . 



No system in the Christian world is so well calculated 
to promote the interests of society as the doctrine which 
shows a God reconciling a lapsed world unto himself. 

Benjamin Franklin, Jan. 17, 1706-1790. 



272 



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August 31. 



273 



£>e#temhtr. 



The sultry summer past. September comes, 
Soft twilight of the slow declining year, — 
More sober than the buxom, blooming May, 
And therefore less the favorite of the world, 
But dearest month of all to pensive minds. 

Carlos Wilcox. 

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it : thou greatly en- 
richest it with the river of God, which is full of water : thou 
preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. . . . 
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop 
fatness. — Ps. lxv. 9, 11. 

He will reconcile all things unto himself. — Col. i. 20. 



2 75 



September 1. 



Yours is the prodigal comet's long ellipse, 
Self exiled to the farthest verge of night ; 
Yet strives with you no less that inward might ; 

No sin hath e'er imbruted 
The God in you the creed-dimmed eye eludes; 
The law looks not to have its solitudes 

By bigot feet polluted : 
Yet they who watch your God-compelled return 
May see your happy perihelion burn 

Where the calm sun his unfledged planets broods. 
James Russell Lowell, Feb. 22, 1819- 
Rev. L. L. Record, 1816-1871. 



September 2. 



Our church is liberal in that she recognizes God in 
every man ; loving, in that she presents heaven ; sympa- 
thetic, in that she offers to humanity a human Christ ; she 
is devotional and dignified and reverential, in that she 
presents God in the perfection of his character and love 
as the motive of moral action rather than fear. 

Rev. O. L. AsHENFELTER, 1844- 
Rev. W. M. DELONG, 1815-1377- 



276 



September 1. 



September 2. 



277 



Septem&er 3. 



The beautiful auld man took my hand : " We shall 
never meet again this side the bonnie hame of the future,'' 
said he, with lips that fruitlessly strove not to quiver. 
" But my dear lady, my puir lassie, if ever you get dis- 
couraged in your work as missionary here, be comforted 
and strengthened with this thought, — you 've made one 
puir auld man happy as he never was before. You have 
settled my faith. Now I know that all shall be made alive 
in Christ. Dinna greet, puir lassie. Ye *ve been lifted up 
for a guid work, and the Lord of love will help ye on." 

Rev. Caroline A. Soule, 1824- 

The idea of Universalism, which evokes the motive to 
work for its propagation, includes more than belief in ul- 
timate and complete bliss, more than the conception of 
this outcome as the accompaniment of holiness in every 
heart, more than even holiness and happiness as the 
crowning triumph of a sovereign purpose in the universe ; 
to these great issues it adds the doctrine of God in Christ, 
working the gracious end, and working in co-operation 
with the free endeavors of responsible souls. Held in 
other forms, Universalism may present a destiny that en- 
raptures : held in its complete Christian form, it incites 
to godliness and to the missionary zeal which would pro- 
claim it to all the world. 

Rev. George H. Emerson, D.D., 1822- 

Universalism from childhood has been a charming word 
to me, and as, in my youth and maturer life, I became more 
fully acquainted with its blessed signification, it has proved 
to be an inspiration to duty, a support in trial, and a con- 
solation in affliction. Based upon the infinite wisdom, 
power, and goodness of our heavenly Father, it prompts 
charity for the erring, hope for their reformation, confi- 
dence that all error shall be forsaken, all wrongs righted, 
and ultimately a perfect humanity. 

Rev. J. W. Henley, 1832- 



278 



September 3. 



279 



September 4. 



One sweetly solemn thought 

Comes to me o'er and o'er, — 
I 'm nearer to my home to-day 

Than I ever have been before, 
Nearer the bound of life 

Where we lay our burdens down, 
Nearer leaving the cross, 

Nearer wearing the crown. 

Phcebe Carey, 1824-1871. 
Rev. W. A. P. Dillingham, 1824-1871. 

The culture of the schools gives, with intellectual 
fibre, diversity of tongues, but does not furnish the min- 
ister with the things to be spoken. One may be wholly 
equipped for every scholastic contest, and prepared for 
all exigencies in fields of philosophy and letters, and find 
himself naked before the world's sin and grief. 

Rev. G. H. Deere, 1827- 

September 5. 



Nothing is more erroneous than the common habit of 
confounding Optimism with Universalism. The two are 
heaven- wide apart. Earthly life is a moral chaos, a con- 
fused conflict of the divine and the human will, a disor- 
dered aggregate of right and wrong. Optimism glorifies 
the chaos ; it obscures the facts, and goes into mild ec- 
stasies over its own idealizations. Universalism turns 
sadly away from the chaos, and looks for the dawn of a 
new creation. Optimism says that whatever is is right. 
Universalism says that whatever will be will be right. 

Rev. S. S. Hebbard, 1841- 

Rev. George Proctor, 1814- 
Rev. C. M. Beard, 1822-1871. 



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— September 5. 



281 



September 6. 



Love and truth operate in other worlds the same as 
here. The refining and purifying process shall go on 
till Jesus shall see the " travail of his soul, and be satis- 
fied ,: by the birth of all intelligent beings into the king- 
dom of God. 

Rev. I. C. Knowlton, 1819- 

September 7. 

The infinite power of God can bring to a successful 
issue his purposes of love toward the human family. 
Between the several attributes of Jehovah, there must, 
moreover, be a perfect harmony of design, and concert of 
action, or else dissatisfaction and discord will ensue in 
the eternal councils, and imperfection must be allowed 
thereto exist. "A house divided against itself cannot 
stand." We, therefore, are compelled to admit that the 
power of the Almighty will be called into exercise in 
obedience to his sovereign will and pleasure. What 
goodness suggests will be consummated by the power of 
God, according to the plans of his wisdom. 

Rev. L. F. W. Andrews, M.D., 1802-1875. 



September 8. 



Divine punishment cannot be viewed in any enlight- 
ened sense as being administered on a principle of 
retaliation, a rendering of evil for evil, or from prompt- 
ings of malice or hatred. God has forbidden men to act 
on these principles ; can it be supposed he will violate 
his own injunctions ? God himself, we are bound to 
believe, in all his dealings with dependent creatures, acts 
on this perfect moral principle. 

Rev. J. M. Austin, Sept. 6, 1805-1880. 



282 



September 6. 



reptembcr 



September 8. 



283 



September 9. 



The Universalist faith comprehends the theory of the 
divine government. That theory becomes valuable as 
it demonstrates its utility in practically making men and 
women better. " Every man that hath this hope in him 
purifieth himself, even as he is pure " (i John iii. 3). " We 
know that we shall be like him " is the substance of that 
hope. The assurance that the loved of earth will meet 
in the heavenly home furnishes the incentive to put on 
the robes of righteousness preparatory to such meeting : 
hence" a well-grounded hope of heaven constitutes the 
motive-power of every Christian heart. 

Rev. William S. Bacon, 1819- 



Sfptembrr 10. 



Universalism is not a confused collection of doctrinal 
fragments without continuity, or relation of parts, but a 
system of divinity, a tree of life rooted in the character 
and perfections of Deity, and growing up naturally into 
trunk and branches, putting forth leaves and buds and 
blossoms, and finally producing the ripe fruit of a Chris- 
tian life. R ev . Thomas B. Thayer, D.D., 1S12- 

God's providential love is a thought beyond conception. 
There is no object on earth or in heaven that can well 
represent the truth of its wisdom, the touch of its tender- 
ness, or the attraction of its power. The sun is but a taper, 
reflecting its glory : the sea is but a globule, describing 
its breadth and depth. It runs the circle of the universe 
without interruption and without end. It is melting and 
sweet as it is mighty and sublime ; and it holds you and 
me, and it holds the littlest babe and the littlest bird 
and flower, in an infinite Father's heart. 

Rev. Day Kellogg Lee, D.D., 1816-1869. 
Rev. J. V. WiLSOX, 1809- 

284 



September 9, 



September 10. 



285 



September 11. 



Eternal Father, help thy child 

Through earth-born mists to see thee still, 
To know through ill thou makest good, 

For thou art love. " Love works no ill." 

Harriet G. Perry, 1812-1$ 

I cannot tell, I cannot know, 
Whither ray weary feet shall go ; 

Or how be fed ; 
But in God's love I will confide, 
And let whatever ill betide : 

By him I 'm led. 

Harriet S. Baker, 1829- 

September 12. 



The vision which Christian faith lifts before us is that 
of a redeemed and rejoicing world. All men, from all 
ages and all climes, made clean in the "blood of the 
Lamb," shall ascend the holy mount. . . . They whose 
lives upon earth were darkened by ignorance and sin, who 
trod here the thorny ways of transgression, have also 
heard the call. For God's love in Christ — oh, how 
tender and persistent ! — still brooded over them, and 
they too, even through much tribulation, are led to the 
Father's house ; and they love much because much has 
been forgiven. 

Rev. J. C. Snow, 1833- 



286 



Septemiet II. 



Sqptemfer 12. 



287 



September 13. 



I would give as my living and dying testimony to the 
world, that I believe the doctrine of God's infinite and 
universal love, as declared by Jesus Christ in the gospel 
of his grace, and confirmed by the Holy Spirit in the 
impress of his truth upon all who believe therein, is the 
one faith that will ultimately make mankind one in 
Christ, and thus one in the Father, that God may be 
all and in alL 

Rev. B. H. Davis, 1813- 



September 14. 



During and through all the years of the past my faith 
has grown the stronger, and now (1884), at the eventide 
of a laborious and somewhat eventful life, with me the 
light of immortal hope shines clearer and brighter than 
ever. 

Rev. Orson B. Clark, 1810- 



288 



September 13. 



September 14. 



289 



•September 15. 



I have never ceased to thank God for his answer to 
my prayer for rest and peace. I was brought up in the 
strictest Calvinism ; and what agonies my infant soul 
endured, I shall not live long enough adequately to tell. 

My deliverance came in answer to prayer and after a 
season of earnest seeking after truth. I told God I 
could not stand the horrors of the creeds much longer : 
it seemed to me I must find deliverance, or die in de- 
spair. God answered my agonized prayer for help most 
gloriously ; and the light came to me clear and unmis- 
takably, as if I had had a vision of the Father of spirits. 
I think I know something of the feeling of Peter when 
he said to his fellow-believers, " Ye rejoice with joy 
unspeakable, and full of glory." 

Rev. James A. Hoyt, 1839- 

The soul can find no ease till it shakes off the burden 

of ignorance and sin, and places itself under the gentle 

restraint of Christ. It was no idle invitation that the 

Saviour addressed to men, when he said, " Come unto 

me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will 

give you rest." 

Rev. Massena Goodrich, 1819- 

The experience we have had in the journey of life, of 
the loving-kindness of God in prosperity and adversity, 
in health and sickness, in every time of need, should so 
affect us as to cause us to be truly grateful, and lead us 
to hope in the future. We never need despair of the 
protecting care of Heaven — of God. His eye is upon 
us ; and nought shall be brought upon us, but what shall 
be for our good. Does he chasten us, it is for our profit. 
Does he bring trouble and affliction upon us, it is that 
we may be partakers of his holiness. 

Rev. Elmer Hewitt, 1805- 



290 



September 15. 



291 



September 16. 



The only idea that is admissible is the one which the 
New Testament teaches, — that the sinner suffers aeonian 
punishment, which is inward and spiritual, a punishment 
which is occasioned by the sight of the good which 
judges him. The suffering, as we believe, is a means to 
an end, and that end is amendment, leading to virtue, and 
so on to recovery. This is the ultimate destiny for the 
" righteous " and the " wicked," for those who go into 
aeonian life, and for those who go into aeonian punish- 
ment : it is the end beyond all aeons and beyond all 
aeons of aeons. And the one consummation to which 
the discipline of all future but still intermediate ages 
conducts is universal redemption. 

Rev. Charles H. Leonard, D.D. 

Fatherhood, as applied to the Divine Being, is the 
leading, essential, primary fact in all right theology, or 
religion. It has been the fundamental business of the 
Universalist Church to clear away the thousand miscon- 
ceptions and hideous notions, which in former periods 
had grown up around the human conception of God's 
character, and clothe him in those attributes that make 
God worshipful. My heart yearns for a God who is a 
Father, who bends over his earth-children to suffer with 
them in their weaknesses and infirmities. Fatherhood 
is all there is of the gospel. Take that away, and we 
have no gospel at all. These in brief, the divine pater- 
nity and human brotherhood, to me are the essentials. 
From the fundamental facts we must take our beginnings 
in the construction of theology and religion and the re- 
construction of society. 

Rev. George B. Stocking, 1837- 
Rev. B. F. Eaton, 1836- 



292 



September 16. 



293 



September 11 



There will be a period somewhere in the endless 
futurity, when all God's sinning creatures will be restored 
by him to rectitude and happiness. 

Rev. John Foster, i 770-1843. 



September 18. 



From Thee alone we spring, to Thee we tend, 
Path, Motive, Guide, Original, and End ! 

Samuel Johnson, i 709-1 784. 



September 19. 



There is nothing exiled from the power of God. The 
storm and wind and sea may bruise the limbs, and beat 
the struggling soul from its dishonored tenement, the 
hand of God shall snatch it from its homelessness, and 
hide it in his bosom. The death-bed may be sprinkled 
with the tears of sorrow ; but the spiritual features that 
once looked out from the cold, stiffening mask of clay, 
cannot be moistened now with sympathetic grief, for 
God has dried forever all the weeping. Sin may ravage 
for a time the hapless heart ; but nought that lacks alli- 
ance with the holiness of Heaven can claim an immortal- 
ity, and sin must die. 

Rev. E. C. Bolles, PhD , 1836- 
Rev. E. S. CORBIN, 1849-1879. 



294 



September 17. 



September 18. 



September 19. 



2 95 



September 20. 



While the Infinite presses round us on all sides ; while 
the heart of man palpitates neath its burden of hope and 
fear ; while the great mystery of death hangs its dark 
shadow athwart the path of each earthly pilgrim ; while 
the human soul longs with unutterable earnestness for 
life immortal and painless, — I feel sure we shall need 
the strength, the hope, and the consolation which religion 
can alone impart. 

Rev. J. F Rhoades, 1837- 



September 21. 



A clergyman who starts with believing in hells, devils, 
original sin, and such crudities, can never be anything in 
the nineteenth century but a tyrant or a nuisance, if he 
have any logic, as, fortunately, few of such misbelievers 
have. 

Theodore Winthrop, -1861. 
Rev. A. G. Clarke, 1811-1873. 



September 22. 



Salvation is not a deliverance from punishment, or 
from the guilt which incurs punishment. It is the con- 
viction that our heavenly Father loves us, and that his 
hand reaches down to the lowest and weakest of his chil- 
dren with such tender care, that, when we leave the pres- 
ent bodily organization, he will take us up, and give us 
elsewhere a heavenly setting. 

Rev. Thomas Borden, 1820- 



296 



September 20. 



September 21. 



September 



22 



297 



September 23. 



How soul-inspiring the prospect held up before us ! 
We are " the eternal care of God." The soul is too 
valuable to be annihilated, or cast off forever. We are 
placed in this world of imperfection for a season, but in 
the hope of deliverance. The ideal of perfection hovers 
over us. That ideal we must realize. God has not made 
us to chafe and sigh in the prison-house of despair for- 
ever. The hope that never deserts us will summon us 
to vigorous and effective action ; and God, through his 
Holy Spirit, will always assist those who are willing to 
act aright. Jesus will assist us. Good men and angels 
will pray for us. These all attract us towards the higher 
life. It is our privilege and our duty so to live as to 
show ourselves worthy of this noble destiny. 

Rev. John S. Lee, D.D., 1820- 



September 24. 



The Universalist interpretation of Christianity puts 
the highest practical value upon the present life, by ele- 
vating it from a temporary state of trial to a grand 
reality. In a sense, we are living in eternity to-day ; for 
we are living in an existence of soul that hath no end, 
and that which hath no end is eternal. As we go about 
our daily affairs, we go about them in eternity. Death is 
but one of our experiences or landmarks in an unbroken 
existence. This, kept in mind, will tend to cause us to 
live at our best, because of the superior value it puts 
upon this life. God has made to-day to be a bright and 
precious treasure, rich with all the experiences of the 
past and the very principles of the eternal future. 

Rev. G. I. Keirn, 1854- 



September 23. 



&zpumbzx 24:. 



299 



September 25. 

When I was delivered from the bondage, first of mis- 
belief, and then of unbelief, I felt 

" As one, who his life long 
Had in a dark and chilly dungeon pined, 
Feels when restored to freedom and the sun." 

Since then my faith has been precious to me, and never 
more so than when called to speak in reference to the 
departure of one whose life had been sadly marred by sin. 
Words of counsel carefully chosen and kindly spoken are 
in order, and will do much good. Also the hearts of 
sorrowing friends must be comforted by the cheering 
hope which our faith only can impart. The glad evangel 
of the new covenant is presented only in its fulness by 
him who recognizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the 
Saviour of the world. 

Rev. G. W. Lawrence, 1815- 

September 26. = 



There is no way to account, on the hypothesis of an 
All-wise Creator, for the bestowment of man's wonderful 
possibilities, unless we believe the same Creator has pro- 
vided means, in some way, for their complete realization. 
Since their purpose is not fulfilled here, there must be 
an existence beyond, or God's energies are spent for 
nought, and man falls like unripened fruit from the tree 
of life. As the cries of the seabird and the roar of the 
surf indicate to the benighted mariner that land is near, 
so surely do these inward cries of the soul, and these 
ceaseless moanings of the heart for more truth, more 
love, more joy, show to man, benighted and stranded on 
the shores of time, that heaven is at no great distance. 
Rev. Varnum Lincoln, Sept. 25, 1819- 



.300 



September 25. 



September 26. 



301 



September 27. 



If figuratively the cross answers to all types and sug- 
gestions in the way of sacrifice, its chief excellence is 
not discerned until we see how actually and spiritually 
it is the lifting power of the world. The cross of Calvary 
is most truly magnified when it is accepted as the sign 
and prophecy of the full accomplishment of Christ's re- 
deeming work, no less than an attestation of the divine 
authority of his mission. Bless God, that, in the light 
which streams from the glorified cross, we can read the 
legend of largest hope ! — " Christ for all the world, and 
all the world for Christ." ' 

Rev. H. W. Rugg, Sept. 23, 1832- 

It was not because the Father required to be recon- 
ciled to the world, but because the world needed to be 
reconciled to God, that Jesus Christ was sent to mankind 
(John iii. 16, 17 ; 2 Cor. v. 18, 19). His sufferings w r ere 
the natural and necessary consequence of the duties in 
which he was engaged. His doctrines, by opposing the 
prejudices of his nation, excited their hatred, and, in grat- 
ifying their malice, they put him to death. But this was 
the consequence of coming to save us, and not the cause 
of our salvation. Nor do his sufferings affect us in any 
other way than as they serve for an example. 

Rev. S. R. Smith, i 788-1 850 



302 



September 27. 



3°3 



September 28. 



The resurrection is a spiritual as well as bodily change ; 
not merely the continued life of the spirit after death, 
nor the rising of the body from death, but the rising-up 
of man, or his ascent into a higher, holier life. And when 
this change is complete, men will be, as the angels now are, 
" children of God, because children of the resurrection." 
Rev- Holden R. Nye, 1819- 



September 29. 



Thus does the " law of human progress " 

Assert eternal Providence. 
And justify the ways of God to man, 

by showing evil no longer a gloomy mystery, binding the 
world in everlasting thrall, but as an accident, destined 
under the laws of God to be slowly subdued by the works 
of men as they pass on to the promised goal of happiness. 

It is true that there are various races of men ; but there 
is but one great human family, in which Caucasian, 
Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children 
of one Father, and heirs of one happiness. 

* Charles Sumner, 1811-1874. 



304 



September 28. 



September 29. 



305 



September 30. 



For more than half a century I have found the Uni- 
versalist faith bread of life. 

Mrs. E. M. Bruce, 1830- 

Christ leads the ages. All the progress the world 
makes is simply approaching him, coming nearer to the 
ideal of his religion. 

Rev. F. S. Bliss, 1828-1873. 

A positive and earnest belief in the goodness of God 
is of great value. It both strengthens and sweetens hu- 
man life. It helps give courage to oppose. wrong, to be 
firm and unwavering for truth and justice. It gives a 
sense of security and support even in temporary defeats 
of the right. It aids in dispelling the doubts of unreason. 
It counsels faith, hope, and courage toward all that is 
good. It wins to a greater love of goodness. It encour- 
ages day by day all those sentiments and practices that 
truly refine and elevate society, that make home a home 
indeed, and human companionship in all life's relations 
one of the purest enjoyments. 

Rev. C. W. Brainard, 1852- 



306 



September 30. 



307 



October. 



The oak upon the windy hill 

Its dark green burthen upward heaves ; 
The hemlock broods above its rill. 
Its cone-like foliage darker still 

Against the birch's graceful stem ; 
And the rough walnut-bough receives 
The sun upon its crowded leaves, 

Each colored like a topaz gem ; 

And the tall maple wears with them 
The coronal which autumn gives, 
The brief, bright sign of ruin near, 
The hectic of a dying year. 

J. G. Whittier. 

If, then, God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, 
and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he 
clothe you, O ye of little faith ? — Luke xii. 28. 

Therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust 
in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of 
those that believe. — 1 Tim. iv. 10. 



3°9 



October 1. 



This furnishes for us the blissful prospect of a continu- 
ous being, and of attendant felicities in the resurrection 
home. It illustrates death as only a necessary change, a 
birth into life. It unclothes, disinthralls, the soul ; not that 
it may be found naked, but that it may be clothed upon 
with a better habitation, " a building of God, eternal in the 
heavens." The inferences that may be drawn legitimately 
from such a thought are indeed precious to him who has 
it. There is in prospect for him always the sympathy of 
love, if he will seek it, a re-union with friends, a union 
with angels and spirits before unknown, whose "joy is as 
the morning," and whose light and life " are as the noon- 
day," glorious to behold, thrice glorious to feel. 

Rev. Russell Tomlinson, 1808-1878. 

©ctober 2. 



The good that lies in the heart of nature must be at 

last developed and expressed in man. Everything that 

exists has reference to some ultimate moral use. The 

sun shines not alone to warm the planets that surround 

it, but to illumine the pathway along which humanity is 

advancing to perfection ; and all the stars that glitter in 

the nightly firmament are the first-born heralds of that 

vast multitude of souls whose march is forever upward 

toward the throne of God. 

Rev. R. P. Ambler, 1827- 



310 



©ctri&er 1. 



©ctofat 2. 



311 



©ctober 3 



He is the reconciled who prefers the heaven-appointed 
storm rather than any calm of mere human origin, and in 
all things that the Lord shall have his own way without 
consulting him. Tears will roll down his cheeks, and his 
heart will bleed, if his child or any of his dearest is trans- 
lated out of his sight ; yet he is willing to surrender his 
treasure to Him whose love is tenderer, and whose care is 
more efficient, than his own ever could be, and, though it 
be with trembling tongue, he will sing it out, " The Lord 
gave, and the Lord hath taken away : blessed be the 
name of the Lord." By work, by sometimes painful 
struggles, by sacrifices, by trials, as well as by desirable 
experiences, God would have his children pass over this 
pilgrim-journey. Blessed are they who gladly, victori- 
ously travel over this king's highway ! 

Rev. J. H. Farnsworth, Oct. 2, 1822- 

©ctofier 4. 



And now, as I behold what is the actual sorrow of 
some, and the possible sorrow of all, in my sense of this 
sacred hour, and the solemn light that streams from our 
religion, I bid you hope. Put the light in your windows 
for the wanderers' return. Keep the old home-love just 
the same. They will come back. They will be yours 
again. From the distant fields of sin they will come. 
From unmarked graves they will rise, and your sore 
heart shall lift itself up in a psalm of unspeakable joy. 
The whole creation shall yet put on its new manhood, 
and walk in glory in the Father's house. 

Rev. Amos Crum, 1846- 



312 



©ctobzx 3. 



©rioter 4. 



313 



©ctobcr 



D. 



There is a word, which, when uttered in faith, charms 
the mind, and chastens the heart, and drives away all 
doubt and fear from the soul, — a word which suggests 
the aroma of the flowers and the chime of merriest bells, 
and all things bright, beautiful, and pure, -r- a word 
which saints can breathe forth with unspeakable satis- 
faction in their holiest prayers, and which the poor and 
lowly and sinful and forsaken can shout for very joy, — 
Unvversalism . 

Rev. S. Herbert Roblin, Oct. 4, 1858- 

We beseech our brethren to walk as children of light, 
as God is light, and in him is no darkness. The glorv 
of God and the good of his creatures are inseparably 
connected ; and therefore neither life nor death, princi- 
palities nor powers, things present nor things to come, 
shall be able to separate us from the love of God which 
is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Rev. Thomas Barnes, Oct. 4, 1749-1816. 

Rev. B. F. HITCHCOCK, 1813-1880. 
Rev. C. H. DUTTON, 1823-1877. 

©ctaber 6. 



If all Christians would endeavor to study the bound- 
less love of Jehovah, rather than "limit the Holy One 
of Israel," it would be far better for the cause of virtue 
and religion in the world, and the more surely would the 
happiness of mankind be secured. 

Levisa Buck, Oct. 4, 1749-1816. 



3H 



October 5. 



(Bttobzt 6. 



315 



©ctober 7. 



It is of but little account that we have this great faith 

of universal truth and love, unless we build it into the 

hearts and lives of our people. The building of the Uni- 

versalist Church must have growth from within. The 

spiritual currents must start from the root of a living 

faith, and flow into the whole body, if it would blossom 

and bear fruit in the direction of the great salvation it 

proclaims. 

Rev. Quincy Whitney, 1S24- 

Good men desire the salvation of all souls, but have 
not the power to save them. These same men teach 
that God has the power, but not the desire : therefore 
these men teach that good men are better than God. 

Chaplain Gamaliel Collins, U. S. A., 1816- 



©ctoher 8. 



We send these fond endearments o'er the grave : 
Heaven would be hell, if loved ones were not there. 



Rev. E. T. Wilkes, 1844- 



J. G. Percival, i 795-1 856. 



316 



©ctaber 7. 



©ttobzx 8. 



317 



©ctober 9. 



The Eternal Will 
Shall deign to expound this dream 
Of good and evil, and redeem 

Unto himself all times, all things, 
And, gathered under his almighty wings, 

Abolish hell, 
And to the expiated earth 
Restore the beauty of her birth, 
Her Eden in an endless paradise, 
Where man no more can fall, as once he fell, 
And even the very demons shall do well. 

Lord Byron, Jan. 22, 178S-1S24. 
Rev. H. J. Bradbury, -1880. 
Rev. George Hastings, 1812-1873. 



©ctober 10. 



When to fair climes our " dearly loved n repair, 
Find life a home, and death a pillow there ; 
When time and distance have our bosoms riven, 
How sweet to hope " we meet again in heaven " ! 

When we, assembling in the temple, bring 
To God all good the heart's full offering, 
Upon that day, the best of all the seven, 
What then so joyous as the " hope of heaven " ? 

When time shall number all our precious years, 
And in our sky the dim age-star appears, 
When death's cold shadows hang above life's even, 
We '11 calmly die with a " full hope of heaven." 

Rev. Savilion W. Fuller, 1803- 
Rev. L. S. Crosley, 1847- 



318 



October 9. 



(dctoitx 10. 



3*9 



©ctober 11. 



The most accurate observations and deductions of 
science fail to pierce the secrets, and unravel the mys- 
teries, that lie at the heart of nature. The deepest and 
most elaborate researches of anatomist and physiologist 
are powerless to unveil the secret and mystery that lie 
infolded in the human soul To read and interpret the 
world of nature and the world of man, one must be 
aided by the light of that faith which declares the being, 
presence, and power of God. 

Rev. R. A. Greene, 1848- 

If the gospel is true, God never needed the blood of 
his Son to make him merciful, for the obvious reason 
that he was never unmerciful. Neither hatred nor wrath, 
in the true sense of those dreadful words, ever fretted 
the bosom, or disgraced the character, of the Almighty. 
Christ came, not to placate his wrath, but to reveal his 

love. 

Rev. Merritt Sanford, 1812-1S49. 

: — ©etcher 12. s 



In the " land where the inhabitant can say, ' I am 
no more sick,' where iniquity will be forgiven, where 
the prodigal in his Father's house will be like, and yet, 
oh, how unlike, what he was in the ' far country'" — in 
that land shall we rise to a holier and more visible com- 
munion with the dearly loved whose existence on earth 
awoke the deepest gratitude in our hearts. And oh, how 
full of joy will be the hour of that communion ! — the hour 
which sees united once again those whom death had put 
asunder, friend joined to friend, "the father folding in 
his arms his long-lost boy, the mother greeted by the 
babe she wept over with fast and bitter tears when she 
laid its form away," brother and sister together in the 
home beyond the grave. Who can describe the joy that 
will burst forth from myriads of hearts, pealing through- 
out the endless spaces of eternity, when all earth's 
parted ones are safe in heaven above ! 

Rev. J. J. Twiss, 1820- 

FRANCES D. GAGE, 1808- 

Rev. William Livingston, 1815-1879. 
320 



©ttohzi 11. 



©ctab£t 12. 



321 



October. 13. 



Believe the best things possible of God, of man, cf 
human destiny. Believe that God is ever with us. I 
fear we do not always realize this. If we do not succeed 
in our plans, if the truth is in the minority, if God's mills 
grind slowly, we begin to question and doubt, and half 
conclude that there is no God, or, if there is, he is not 
especially interested in the affairs of this far-off orb. Oh, 
do not relegate the Infinite One from this universe ! We 
need him in this work-day life ; we need him when 
sorely pressed with temptation, when bowed with heavy 
sorrow, when fighting the battles of truth and right, and 
when dumb in the awful mystery of death. 

Rev. F. M. Alvord, Oct. 12, 1S19- 

~ October 14. — . ~ 



Farewell, friends ! Yet not farewell ; 
Where I am, ye too shall dwell. 
I am gone before your face 
A moment's time, a little space ; 
When ye come where I have stepped, 
Ye will wonder why ye wept ; 
Ye will know, by wise love taught, 
That here is all, and there is nought. 
Weep a while, if ye are fain, — 
Sunshine still must follow rain, — 
Only not at death ; for death, 
Now I know, is that first breath 
Whicl} our souls draw when we enter 
Life, which is of all life centre. 

* Edwin Arnold. 



322 



©c-Urtcr 13, 



/©rto&erU. 



3 2 3 



©ctc&ct 15. 



The only ground on which endless punishment can be 
justified to reason is the ground that a single sin deserves 
it. For, if a single sin does not deserve it, no conceiva- 
ble number can ; for no finite number bears any r 
to infinite duration which is not borne by a single unit. 

Rev. M. J. Steeke, 1S14-1S77. 



©cto&er 16. 



The fundamental idea in the nature and office of 
Christian faith is not that it conditions salvation, either 
here or hereafter, but that it anticipates future salvation, 
bringing it into the present. Man's inheritance of eter- 
nal life, through the resurrection in Christ, is just as 
much a natural, universal process, as his inheritance of 
this mortal existence, with all its imperfections, through 
his birth from Adam. Now, he that believes on the Son 
of God already enters into the possession of eternal life 
(John iii. 36), not because faith conditions it, but because 
it anticipates it, thereby converting a future certainty, as 
the object of faith, into a present reality. God through 
his Son is the Saviour of ail men. It is for the individual 
soul to anticipate and appropriate this fact through the 
power of faith. 

Rev. O. D. Miller, D.D., Oct. iS, 1821- 



3 2 4 



©ctofor 15. 



©xtober 16. 



3 2 5 



ffirtoier 17. 



My God ! we are thine offspring ; time 
Is but our infancy, the earth 
Our cradle ; but our home 's a clime 
Eternal, sorrowless, sublime : 
Heaven is the country of our birth. 

J. Bowring, 1792-1872. 

The forces of life are terribly wasted. In our eager 
pursuit after the phantoms that engage so much of our 
attention, we almost forget that we are immortal beings ; 
and the little faith that we do have is too often latent, 
and remains so till some terrible experience arouses us 
from our lethargy; and then we begin to live. 

Rev. W. W. Hayward, 1834- 



©ctaficr 18, 



It is not that God has required faith as an arbitrary 
condition of our being accepted of him as righteous, 
when in point of fact we are not righteous : on the con- 
trary, faith actually works true righteousness in us by its 
natural influence, reconciling us with our Maker, purify- 
ing our hearts, and bringing our spirit into conformity 
with the divine law. We are justified by faith, because 
it produces that frame of mind which is the proper sub- 
ject of justification ; we are saved through faith, because 
it overcomes our sin, and creates "righteousness, and 
peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit." 

H. Ballou, 2d, D.D., 1796-1861. 



^26 



©ctober 17. 



©ctofccr 18. 



3 2 7 



©ctobeu 19. 



Heaven and earth should petition to be abolished, 

rather than one such monstrosity (a victim of infinite 

suffering) should exist : it is the absurdcst, as well as 

the most impious, of all fears. 

Leigh HuiNT, 1784-1S59. 



©ctofor 20. 



There never yet was found a heart 
Where goodness all had died ; 

'T was hidden in some unseen part : 
We 've all our angel-side. 

Thy fallen brother hath a soul, 

God's mercy yet will make him whole; 
For still 't is true 

We 've all our angel-side. 

* Lucy Larcom, 1824- 
Rev. G. W. Perry, 1846- 

©ctofcer 21. 



Believe thou, O my soul, 
Life is a vision shadowy of truth ; 
And vice and anguish and the w r ormy grave, 
Shapes of a dream. The veiling clouds retire, 
And, lo ! the throne of the Redeeming God, 
Forth flashing unimaginable clay, 
Wraps in one blaze earth, heaven, and deepest hell. 
S. T. Coleridge, 1770-1834. 



328 



©ctaber 19. 



©ctofar 20. 



©ctofier 21, 



3 2 9 



©riaber 22. 



Shall I be left forgotten in the dust, 
When Fate, relenting, lets the flowers revive ? 
Shall Nature's voice, to man alone unjust, 
Bid him, though doomed to perish, hope to live ? 
Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive 
With disappointment, penury, and pain ? 
No ! heaven's immortal spring shall yet arrive, 
And man's majestic beauty bloom again, 
Bright through the eternal year of Love's triumphant 

reign. 

James Beattie, Oct. 25, 1735-1S03. 



©ctofar 23. 



Ah, yet, when all is thought and said, 
The heart still overrules the head ; 
Still what we hope we must believe. 
And what is given us receive ; 
Must still believe, for still we hope, 
That, in a world of larger scope, 
What here is faithfully begun 
Will be completed, not undone. 

* Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861. 



330 



©ctofar 22. 



©rtofcet 23. 



33i 
f 



©ctober 24. 



We need by every means in our power — by thought, 
by word, and by act — to emphasize the great, the vital 
truth that the proclamation of the future salvation of all 
does not of itself secure the present salvation of any. 
It does indeed cast a ray of light into our lives to feel 
and know that a righteous God, with whom a thousand 
years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years, 
will some time in the far future, somewhere in the cease- 
less ages of eternity, be triumphant, bring every rebel- 
lious soul to himself, and make good the final goal of 
ill. But right alongside of this great truth,— God is 
love, — we must proclaim equally often and with equal 
emphasis the correlative truth that our God is a consum- 
ing fire, is not an attribute, not an adjunct, of his, but its 
sum and very essence ; and that this fire of love will 
indeed save the sinner, but it can only be by burning 
up the sin, holding us in the grasp of love until we are 
purified — saved so as by fire. a. C. Fish. 

Rev. Moses Goodrich, 1817-1880. 

©ctota 25. — — 



Why may we not look on the change from this life to 
the next as a passage from night to dawn, in which the 
dormant or down-trodden spiritual energies will wake, 
and begin the labors of holiness? There is that in the 
very nature of this rising of the soul into a higher life 
which suggests a wonderful upheaval of the spirit, the 
overthrow of its old prejudices, the cracking of the hard 
shell of habit, and the exposure of the mind to dazzling 
moral light. Under such an experience, who can doubt 
that the soul will be quickened most powerfully? Who 
can doubt that the process of redemption, even of the 
stubborn, will be wonderfully hastened, and that the 
future state itself will be one of the subiimest of God's 
agencies for the conversion of men ? 

Rev. J. Coleman Adams, TS49- 
Rev. J. M. Paine, iS^-iSCo. 



332 



©ctota 24. 



©ctckr 25. 



333 



©ctober 26. 



Men may think they can get along with any kind of 
religion, or even with none at all ; but there will come 
circumstances when they will hasten, with anxious hearts, 
for the consolations of the gospel. And will it console 
you at such times, when your heart is broken with its 
loss, to tell you that your broken heart can never be 
healed, for that loved one has gone from you forever, 
and not only to be from you, but to suffer forever ? Is 
there any consolation in such a gospel ? More than that, 
is there any truth in it ? Is it a God of love who makes 
a child, knowing he is to suffer eternally ? Is it a God of 
wisdom, who could conceive of only such a botch of cre- 
ation ? Is it a God of power, who is to have evil forever 

opposed to him ? 

* Rev. F. *A. Bisbee. 

— — (Bctt&zx 27. — 



We need not wait for the revealing touch of death to 
show us heaven. Wherever the spirit of purity and 
love — the Spirit of God — sets up its throne, there is 
heaven, in this world no less than in the unseen world 
beyond and above. Let us hope that the hard problems 
which create such sorrow and bitterness here will be 
unknown in the "Elsewhere" of our Christian trust; 
that, beyond the earthly shadows, all God's children at 
last will find better conditions and kindlier lands. But 
may this precious hope for the future of universal hu- 
manity never hide from us the greatness and glory of 
present opportunity! The future holds nothing for man 
that he may not find no?a, if he will. 

* Rev. J. F. Simmons. 



334 



October 26. 



<Bt L obtx 27. 



335 



©ctobet 28. 



As we move in the midst of our fellow-men, we see 
many, who in their sad moral degradation seem forsaken 
of the Almighty. It appears as if God had given them 
up to their sins, and to certain and endless ruin. But 
tne Shepherd is seeking these lost, bruised, and suffering 
ones, and at last he will find them and save them ; for 
" this is the Father's will which hath sent him, that, of 
all which he hath given him, he should lose nothing, 
but should raise it up again at the last day." 

* Rev. Benton Smith. 



©ctafier 29. 



A beautiful region is beaming afar, 

Where the crystalline fountains, o'ershadowed with 
bloom, 
Cast their spangles of light on the sweet-scented air, 

And the wings of the cherubim scatter perfume. 

There the flowers that withered meath Time's chilling 
sky, 
Transplanted, shall live in perennial prime, 
While the anthems of glory are sounding on high, 
And the sapphire arches ring back the loud chime. 

Sarah Bfoughton, 1802-1853. 



336 



©rto&er 28. 



©ctoto 29. 



337 



©ctober 30. 



Too good to be true ! Its goodness, then, is acknowl- 
edged. Too good to be true! — these words compre- 
hend much : they tell more for this despised truth than 
some seem to be aware. But can anything be too good 
for infinite goodness? Can anything be too good for 
infinite wisdom, prompted by infinite goodness, to de- 
vise ? anything too good for infinite goodness, wisdom, 
and power to accomplish ? Let us not thus limit the 
almighty arm of Jehovah, but rather believe, and say 
with an apostle, " Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things 
which God hath prepared for them that love him " 
(i Cor. ii. 9). 

Rev. Joshua Britton, 1803-1S7S. 

©ctober 31. — ^ 



Our faith, how sublime and glorious ! Why, I know 
nothing of doubt now, for years my soul has been so 
full of faith in God and the gospel. If clouds have been 
over me, and I have murmured and groaned, I have 
also prayed and trusted and toiled on. 

Rev. George H. Clarke, 1821-1851. 



©rtafrr 30. 






©ctobtT 31. 






IJIofoemBcr, 



The Autumn is old, 

The sear leaves are flying ; 
He ha tli gathered up gold, 

And now he is dying : 

Old Age, begin sighing. 

The year 's in the wane, 

There 's nothing adorning ; 
The night has no eve, 

And the day has no morning : 

Cold Winter gives warning. 

Thomas Hood. 

His favor is as a cloud of the latter rain. — Prov. xvi. 15. 

He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former 
rain unto the earth. — Hos. vi. 3. 

The creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage 
of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 
— Rom. viii. 21. 



341 



Nobemfar 1. 



In the room 
Of this grief-shadowed present there shall be 
A present in whose reign no grief shall gnaw 
The heart, and never shall a tender tie 
Be broken, — in whose reign the eternal change 
That waits on growth and action shall proceed 
With everlasting concord hand in hand. 

William Cullen Bryant, Nov. 3, 1794-1878. 



Ifofamfar 2. 



Punishment is certain, just, and therefore limited. 
Christ came to save no man from the just consequences 
of his sins; but he did come to save him from commit- 
ting the sins. 

Rev. W. H. Morrison, Nov. 4, 185©- 

Rev. G. W. BlCKNELL. 1837.- 

Rev. w. R. Chamberlain, 1816-1876- 



342 



:zmbn 1. 



Xafomfar 



: - : 



Nofamfcer 3. 



I rejoice in having been brought into being, and into 
such a beautiful world as this, surrounded with so many 
evidences of infinite wisdom, love, and almighty power. 
And, while I rejoice in the revelation of God in nature, 
there is an unspeakable joy that is full of glory that 
comes to the soul through the faith that is cherished in 
the revelation that God has given in his Son, our Sav- 
iour Jesus Christ. Glorious gospel, living faith, blessed 
hope ! — God the Father of all, Christ the Saviour of all, 
heaven the home of ail. 

Rev. L. J. Spencer, Nov. 4, 1S41- 



Nofomfar 4. 



Universal ism : — 

What is it? A star on the wild heaving sea, 
Prostrating the proud on a prayer-bended knee ; 
A fire that refineth the metal within ; 
The canker which gnaws at the vitals of sin. 

What is it ? 'T is mercy, 't is justice, 't is truth, 
The staff of the aged, the glory of youth ; 
The rainbow' of promise, to brighten our tears ; 
A lamp in death's valley, dispersing our fears. 

What is it ? thou askest. Thy answer is there 
In thy own swelling heart, with its beautiful prayer: 
It breathes through all nature, it centres above ; 
'Tis our own spirit's essence, 't is infinite love. 

Julia H. Scott, 1S09-1S42. 



344 



Nobemfcer 3. 



Nobemficr 4. 






345 



Nobemfier 5. 



Why not all darkness flee away, 

And death no more be found ? 
Why not one bright, eternal day 

Encircle us around ? 

Is there not goodness in the Lord 

' Enough to overcome ? 
Is there not power enough in God 
To bring the strangers home ? 

The luminous sun extends his light 

To all the human race : 
W T ill not my Saviour make as bright 

The kingdom of his grace? 

Benjamin Ballou, 1747- 

— — ■ — Wabemfcer 6. — 



The dial 
Receives many shades, and points to the sun ; 
The shadows are many, the sunlight is one. 
Life's sorrows still fluctuate ; God's love does not, 
And his love is unchanged when it changes our lot. 

" And is it too late ? " 
No ; for time is a fiction, and limits not fate : 
Thought alone is eternal, time thralls it in vain. 
For the thought that springs upward, and yearns to regain 
The pure source of spirit, there is no too late. 

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Nov. 8, 183 1- 



346 



November 5. 



November 6. 



( 347 



ftTfl&nttfecr 7. 



The Fatherhood of God implies the complete and 
final realization of the purest desires, the holiest aspira- 
tions, and the spiritual, immortal longings of the human 
soul. A firm and living faith in this blessed truth inspires 
love for, and gratitude towards, God, and fills the soul 
with filial confidence and loving trust in him. The 
Fatherhood of God is a pledge of infinite and undying 
love, and of the ultimate holiness and consequent hap- 
piness of all his children. 

Rev. S. W. Eaton, 1S15- 



KTo&emfier 8. 



From the birth 
Of mortal man the Sovereign Maker said, 
That not in humble nor in brief delight, 
Not in the fading glories of renown, 
Power's purple robes, nor pleasure's flowery lap, 
The soul should find enjoyment ; but from these, 
Turning disdainful to an equal good, 
Through all the ascent of things enlarge her view, 
Till every bound at length should disappear, 
And infinite perfection close the scene. 

Mark Akenside, Nov. 9, 1721- 
Rev. L. P. Blackford, 184S- 



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Wo&emfar 8. 



349 



Nofomfar'9. 



Heaven be praised for the noticeable re-enforce- 
ments of science and literature ! The general effects 
of the writings of Dr. Thomas Dick, for instance, were 
co-operative with those of Murray, Winchester, and 
Ballou. The tales and sketches of Irving, the great 
delineations of Dickens and Thackeray, poems of Long- 
fellow, Whittier, and Tennyson, essays of Ch aiming 
and Emerson, the whole drift of literature, even the 
extension of art, of commerce, of invention, fresh medi- 
cal and metaphysical investigations, travel, freer inter- 
course of nations and communities, fuller accounts of 
our own species, biology, zoology also — have all in 
some way been answering and spreading echoes to the 
gospel trumpets we have been commanded to blow, 
and have blown, after the manner of our consecrated 
denominational fathers. 

Rev. Lucius Holmes, 1822- 

Nobemfar 10. 



Punishment is. the natural evil, of whatever kind, 
which follows the violation of any of God's laws, 
whether physical, organic, or moral. The sinful act 
which constitutes the breach of his laws remains a 
committed act through eternity. The sinful act and its 
penalty cannot be disjoined. The law of punishment 
is appointed by God's wisdom for man's benefit. Pun- 
ishment does not cancel sinfulness. An eternity of 
punishment could not undo one sinful act. What the 
sinner needs is to have his sin forgiven. When God 
graciously forgives it by blotting it out, and no longer 
reckoning it against him, then is he forgiven, and recon- 
ciled to God. 

Rev. Kosciusko McArthur, 1812- 



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Xobnnkr 10. 



3S l 



Ifofcemfier 11. 



We cannot now realize how good it will be to live in 
this world when men act in all public and private mat- 
ters from the pure love of right. This will be when 
Universalism becomes as real in life as it is true in the 
philosophy of religion. When men shall proclaim a 
truth because it is true and right, and pursue a course 
of conduct because their love of God and humanity re- 
quires it, then will the millennium be here, and heaven 

will not be far away. 

Rev. T. E. Ballard, 1850- 



Nofjemrjcr 12. 



Confide in God : that is the great lesson. You may 
read it in all you see around you; at every step you 
take abroad in nature's domains, you may read the bliss- 
ful sentiment traced in rainbow hues on the lily-of-the- 
valley. You may hear it warbled in the vesper-hymn of 
the songster on the flowery spray. It is blazoned forth 
in the eaglet's eye that steadily gazes on the noonday 
sun. It twinkles in the sparkling wing of the firefly, or 
mildly shines in .the softer light of the glow-worm. Let 
not an evil heart of unbelief rob us of the consolation 
that He Who has given instinct we knowledge to the 
minutest of his sentient creatures to guide it safely to a 
happy consummation will ever watch over human inter- 
ests, and never, as some blindly imagine, leave men to 
wander in inextricable -Labyrinths, or to plunge into a 
gulf beyond the reach of his arm of mercy. 

Rev. C. F. Le Fevre, D.D., 1797-1S83. 

Rev. J. M. USHER, 1814- 

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No&em&er 12. 



353 



Nobemfier 13. 



It is said that we can affirm nothing certain of any soul 
eternally free. But it is overlooked that God is as eter- 
nally free as any soul, and that, in the exercise of his 
eternal free-will, he " will have all men to be saved, and 
come to the knowledge of the truth/' — saved, indeed, 
by coming unto the truth, which maketh free. 

We are also told that a final choice of good or evil 
determines the eternal happiness or the miserable des- 
tiny of each soul. We reply that no soul can make 
its final choice till it has finally and forever chosen the 
good and the true. 

Rev. R. T. Polk, Nov. 12, 1837- 

Rev. SOLOMON LAWS, 1806-1879. 



Ifo&emfar 14. 



The love that is "the fulfilling of the law"; love 
God supremely as your Father and your Friend, in re- 
sponse to all the attractions of his infinite love for you ; 
love Christ as dearer than all earthly friends, — the " one 
altogether lovely/' who loved you, and gave himself for 
you ; love the dear ones of your homes with a love more 
hallowed and tender than any mere affection of instinct 
can be, because founded on the relation of souls, and 
making life a deliberate consecration of self to their ser- 
vice ; love your neighbor, obeying the law, u Whatsoever 
ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so 
to them ; n and, hardest of all, love the unlovely, the 
erring, the fallen, the wretched. It is to such a love that 
all Christian teaching tends ; and it is only such a love 
that is " the fulfilling of the law." 

Rev. J. D. Pierce, Nov. 15, 1815-1880. 



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Xafamfar 14. 



JOO 



Nofcemiier 15. 



The doctrine of God's universal love securing the uni- 
versal redemption of our fallen race is the only system 
that is compatible with the full cultivation of the feelings 
of kindness, tender-heartedness, and forgiveness. There 
is a mighty power in this sentiment to subtract the bitter- 
ness of grief, which would pierce the feeling and tender 
soul in view of the miseries and misfortunes of life. That 
power lies in the great truth which it teaches, that all evil 
and suffering shall result in good. 

Rev. F. A. Hodsdon, 1804-1868. 

God's fatherhood is universal. God has a father's 
care for all his children, a father's interest in them, 
a father's responsibility for them, a father's sympathy 
with their sorrow, a father's compassion for their igno- 
rance and weakness. As a father he disciplines, mean- 
ing, by all the allotments of life, to bring us into the 
worthiness and glory of our inheritance as children of 
the Most High. Rev< w> s . C rowe, i8so _ 

Nobemfor 16. — 



That character determines destiny ; that right charac- 
ter is the condition of eternal life here and hereafter, 
an indefeasible possession, of which no power can de- 
prive the soul which has acquired it ; that character is 
continuous in both worlds, the judgment of heaven hon- 
oring the judgment of the earth; that no "probation" 
can invalidate moral qualities and acquirements, nor 
any "atonement" compensate for moral deficiencies and 
transgressions ; that a free soul makes its own heaven or 
hell, and cannot be prevented, in any state of existence, 
from pursuing virtue, and attaining happiness, that is, 
from determining its own character, — this is a doctrine 
so essential, of so vast a utility, and of moral conse- 
quences so far-reaching and vital, that all religious teach- 
ing which omits it must be deficient in important elements 
of power and usefulness. 

Rev. Orello Cone, D.D., 1835- 



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Xorinnta 16. 



357 



Nubctnfcer 17. 



Universalism is a most heart-cheering truth. It is cal- 
culated, when practically exemplified in our conduct and 
conversation, to impart to the mind a joy "which nothing 
earthly gives or can destroy." It is a doctrine that is 
plainly taught in the sacred Scriptures, and is in har- 
mony with Nature's volume and every holy desire of 
the human mind. It teaches that the Holy One is the 
Father of all mankind, and that this relationship can 
never be annulled. Being unchangeable, " the same 
yesterday, to-day, and forever/' he will continue to be 
the Father of all, not only in this world, but also in the 
world to come. Consequently, as a father, he will per- 
mit nothing to happen to his numerous offspring but 
will be for his glory and their good. 

Rev. Joseph P. Atkinson, 1814- 

Nofoemfor 18. 



God is love. Through these three brief words shines 
the highest truth of Christianity. Indeed, amid all the 
blazing constellations of truth, this was set as the central 
sun, binding all to itself, and giving to all form and worth. 
Quench it, and a night, starlit perhaps, but appalling, 
would settle upon the universe. It is this truth, which, 
more than any other, glorifies nature, brightens the 
pathway of humanity, sweetens individual life, and dis- 
closes a future ever radiant with promise-signs. It 
solves our darkest problems, lightens our heaviest bur- 
dens, and assuages our greatest griefs. . Blessed is he 
who lives in its glow, and who, dying, goes home by its 
light ! 

Rev. C. H. Fay, 1815- 



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STcfcemfcer 18. 



359 



jXabemucr 19. 



The attributes of God all centre in infinite love ; for 
his incorruptible spirit is in all things love. Love seeks 
the good of its object, chastening the wayward, to bring 
back the erring to duty. For this purpose God sent his 
Son to seek and save the lost world from sin, to destroy 
death, and bring life and immortality to light. He will 
not fail nor be discouraged ; he will set judgment in the 
earth ; he will give to the world the bread of life, and 
thus is Saviour of all men from their sins. 



Rev. A. E. White, 1842- 



Rev. J. H. Sanford, Nov. 18, 1806- 



Nobem&er 20. 



What are the chief essentials of your faith ? 

God as the Father of the human race, 

Man as the brother of his fellow-man, 

Christ as the Saviour of the world from sin, 

And heaven the final home of all mankind. 

These great essentials underlie the whole, 

And overshadow all the world with love, 

And comprehend all thoughts which man may think 

Of truth and goodness, Providence and grace. 

A broader faith, I think, could not be found ; 

A better faith I know there never was, 

And it is true as God and love and heaven. 

This, this alone, is Universalism, 

For this alone is universal truth, 

Resulting in the golden age of love. 

Rev. J. J. Austin, Nov. 22, 1819- 

Rev. W. E. Garkix, 1850- 



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No&emfar 21. 



And it is not a dream of fancy proud, 

With a fool for its dull begetter : 
There 's a voice at the heart which proclaims aloud 

" We are born for something better/' 
And that voice of the heart, oh ! ye may believe, 
Will never the hope of the soul deceive. 

Schiller, Nov. io, 1759-1805. 
Rev. W. Campbell, 1781-1870. 
Rev. Eben H. Chapin, 1854- 



Wo&emfot 22. 



Though souls are sadly lost, and often so, it does not 
by any means follow that the loss of any shall be forever. 
The whole tenor of the Scriptures is against the thought. 
The lost sheep was found. The prodigal son, though 
dead, came to himself, and was alive again. That Jesus 
came to seek and save that which was lost precludes the 
idea that there is any such thing as the hopeless loss of 
any soul. So long as it is astray, the Son of man is seek- 
ing its return. He who is the same yesterday, to-day, 
and forever, never ceases, and never can cease — while 
his nature remains the same — his endeavors to reclaim 
it. He will seek until he finds it, that he may rejoice, ' 
and that all men and angels may rejoice with him, and 
that his and their joy may be full. 

Rev. W. S. Ralph, 1838- 
Rev. E. A. DREW, 1845-1874. 



362 



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Xo&nnfor 22. 



November 23. 



Prayer should be considered a great privilege as well 
as a great duty; not with a view that it will effect any 
sort of change in the Supreme Being, — in his disposi- 
tion, his will, or his purposes. This can never be desira- 
ble. This, were it possible, ought, above all things, to be 
deprecated, and for this plain reason, that they cannot 
be changed for the better. Infinite wisdom, goodness, 
and benevolence admit of no augmentation, neither can 
they suffer any diminution. Let heaven and earth rejoice ! 
Creation is safe. 

Rev. Mexzies Rayner, i 770-1 S50. 
Rev. W. w. Wilson, 1819-1874. 



STobember 24. 



When I consider the boundless nature of eternity, and 
when I consider the limited nature of man, I can scarcely 
bring myself to believe that the sins of a few fleeting 
years are to be punished throughout a duration that has 
no end, more especially when it is declared more than 
a score of times that '• the mercy of the Lord endureth 
forever," and that " his tender mercies are over all his 
works." If his mercv endures forever, it appears scarcely 
consistent with the idea, that punishment will be inflicted 
throughout unlin Ued duration. ... I think it more con- 
sistent with the goodness of God to suppose that the 
punishments he inflicts upon the wicked are intended for 
their ultimate benefit, and to prepare them for restoration 
to the happiness they had lost. 

Thomas Dick, 1772-1857. 
Rev. T. M. Cook, 1S18-1850. 
Rev. H. H. Baker, 1S11-1S81. 
Rev. G. L. Smith, 1823-1879. 



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Wo&emfier 24. 






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Wo&etnfier 25. 



As our doctrine prevailed, and like leaven was mani- 
fest in the popular theology of those days ; as the views 
of Relly, Murray, Ballou, and others of our now sainted 
fathers, spread far and wide, finding minds to approve, 
and hearts to welcome them, wherever they are pro- 
claimed, — Cuvier was making his collection of com- 
parative anatomy, Buckland and Lyell were unfolding 
the mysteries of geology, Herschel was sweeping the 
heavens with his grand telescope, and Humboldt was 
weighing the stars as in balances, detecting and tracing 
the electric currents in the earth, and causing the nations 
to lift their hands in amazement at the truths he evolved 
from every department of nature. 

Rev. L. J. Fletcher, D.D , 1818-1884. 

— NoSmnfar 26. 



It will not do to affirm, that, because of man's sinful- 
ness, the law can never be fulfilled ; for this would limit 
either the power, the wisdom, or the love of God, and 
would be equivalent to saying that exigencies may arise 
which God could neither foresee nor guard against. 
The apostle says, " Where sin abounded, grace did much 
more abound ; that as sin hath reigned unto death, even 
so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal 
life, by Jesus Christ our Lord." 

Rev. Orlando Skinner, 1828- 

Rev. C. C. THORNTON; 1826-1879. 



366 



Nofomfar 25. 



No&cmfar 26. 



367 



Nobemfcer 27. 



The alternative is not between Christianity as it has 
been interpreted for the last thousand years and the 
new interpretation; but it is between the new interpreta- 
tion and no Christianity at all. The heart of the world 
has grown so large and so warm, it has absorbed so 
much of the true Christian spirit, that the old dogmatic 
theology has become utterly incongruous to its wants, 
and repulsive to its tastes. 

Rev. Asa Saxe, D.D., 1827- 
Rev. W. W. Olds, 1831-1871. 

Do not imagine for a moment that any great truth is in 
danger. Truth is the solidest and most enduring thing 
in the universe. " The word of God . . . abideth for- 
ever." 

Rev. Alexander Kent, 1837. 

Woiwnfret 28. 



Rev. Massena Ballou writes to the compiler of this 
volume, at the age of eighty-four : " I began to preach the 
glorious faith of Universalisrn when but twenty-two years 
old, and I have never faltered in my belief of the final 
holiness and happiness of all mankind, and that God, 
our heavenly Father, will finally cherish all his children, 
and do for them infinitely better than any earthly parent 
can for his offspring. My life has been somewhat varied. 
I have outlived nearly all of those who started out with 
me to preach the glad tidings of great joy which shall be 
realized by all people in the fulness of God's time. I 
have lived to bury father and mother, a dear companion, 
a lovely daughter, brothers and sisters, and numerous 
friends who were dear to me ; but I still cherish that 
faith which gives the assurance that * God is love ' as 
the greatest boon of our existence here on this mundane 
sphere." 

Rev. Massena Ballou, 1800- 



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Nofamficr 28. 



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Master, if there be doom, 

All men are bereaven ; 
If in the universe, 
One spirit receive the curse, 

Alas for heaven ! 
If there be doom for one, 
Thou, Master, art undone. 

* Robert Buchanan. 



.Nofamfiw 30. 



The word " evangelical " is one of the best of words ; 
but it is liable to be perverted, and then, like every 
other perverted blessing, it becomes very bad. The 
perversion of this word is used as a stigma and re- 
proach upon those Christians, who, seeking honestly 
and devoutly, do not find the doctrine of endless per- 
dition taught in the Scriptures. Because Universalists 
do not find that doctrine in the Bible, they insist that 
we are not evangelical, — that is, that we are not Chris- 
tians, — thus perverting this word to a base and ignoble 

service. 

Rev. A. R. Abbott, 1812-1S69. 
Rev. R. Thornton, 1S11-1S81. 



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Ifofantfier 30. 



/ 371 



SDecemfcer. 



Out of the bosom of the Air, 

Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, 
Over the woodlands brown and bare, 
Over the harvest-fields forsaken, 
Silent and soft and slow 
Descends the snow. 

This is the poem of the Air, 

Slowly in silent syllables recorded. 

H. W. Longfellow. 

The hoar-frost also as salt he poureth on the earth, and be- 
ing congealed, it lieth on the top of sharp stakes. When the 
cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it 
abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth 
the water as with a breastplate. — Ecclus. xliii. 19, 20. 

We spend our years as a tale that is told. — Ps. xc. 9. 

In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in 
marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. — Matt. 
xxii. ^o. 



373 



©tcemtrtr~l. 



The salvation of the world is to be the result of a 
great missionary enterprise under God himself, i. We 
argue this from the fact that God is the Father of all. 
If he is the Father of all, he will save all, if he can. 

2. God is the Infinite Mind, and consequently possesses 
more intellectual and jnoral power than all his creatures. 

3. God is perfect in -knowledge and wisdom. 4. He has 
already regenerated and saved some of the most igno- 
rant and hardened and wicked sinners. ,. If he^as done 
this, he. is able, with sufficient means and time at his 
disposal, to convert, regenerate, and sanctify all souls. 

Rev. Eli Ballou, D.D.,'1808-1883. 
Rev. E. W. Coffin, i8m-i3"79. 

A man is not rooted in religion who does nothing for 
his fellows, though his glib tongue profess undying devo- 
tion to religion, and his egotism lead him to think he is 
faithful to God. - ■ - - 

Rev. C. E. Rice, 1861- 

Hmmfor 2. 



Universalism embraces a faith in one God, who has 
made a special revelation of his nature, character, and 
purposes in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testa- 
ments, — which revelation he has established and con- 
firmed by miraculous -displays t)f his divine power, — and 
consequently an tinequivocal faith in the divine authen- 
ticity and authority of those Scriptures in all matters "of 
faith and practice, and in Jesus. Christ as the only per- 
sonal mediator between God and man, being the. true 
and perfect moral image of the Father, possessing " all 
the fulness of the Godhead bodily," who has "put all 
things under his feet," and "given him all power in 
heaven and in earth " for the express purpose that he 
should " reconcile all things to God," and save the world. 
Rev. Nathaniel Stacy, 1778-1868. 



374, 



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HBmmbtx 2. 



375 
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Scccmbct 3. 



Meanwhile it will not be difficult to press forward a 
faith that is equal to every exigency in life. No crisis 
can arise in human experience when it will need to dis- 
guise itself, or silence its voice. No occasion of joy or 
sorrow, life or death, can come, demanding that it shall 
play fast and loose. In every hour it may stand fast, 
proclaiming God the universal Father, Jesus Christ the 
universal Saviour, mankind the universal brotherhood, 
immortality the scene of universal progress, to culminate, 
in God's time, in universal holiness and universal hap- 
piness. And within the limits of these comprehensive 
truths it finds motives for right living, inspiration for 
true worship, invitations to personal pardon and regen- 
eration, a motive to all Christian work, and a sphere for 
rewarding all righteousness, and punishing all sin. 

Rev. C. W. Biddle, 1832- 

— — - — — Becemfcer 4. = 



It is the priceless treasure of our faith, that the Saviour 
cannot desist from this reconciling work until every soul 
that God has made shall be, through all its depths, 
in harmony with him. The task is vast and difficult 
beyond conception, and its accomplishment would be 
plainly impossible if it were committed to any weaker 
hands than those of the Son of God. The malignity and 
tenacity of sin, the hardness of human hearts, the un- 
imaginable depths of human ignorance, the slowness 
with which the weary ages drag their length along, de- 
veloping constantly new forms of sin, and new discour- 
agements, lav upon us in our times of weakness the ter- 
rors of a nightmare, and paralyze the voice of faith. But 
presently a loving touch breaks the fearful spell ; and the 
voice which saved us of old now quickens us again : 
" Ye believe in God, believe also in me." 

Rev. J. Smith Dodge, Dec. 3, 1834- 

376 



December 3. 



December 4. 






377 



2Sert*tnfot 5. 



The tangled labyrinth of life, 

How wild and drear the way! 
Storm swept by storm, and strife by strife, 

Becloud its brightest day ; 
And 'neath the starry heaven's glow 
More darkly mingles oft the woe. 

Yet faith instructs my heart to see 

Some good in every scene ; 
That not one cloud God's love and me 

Can ever pass between ; 
And, when my lot is grief and thrall, 
To say, "My Maker wills it all." 

Rev. J. C. Waldo, 1803- 

JScmriber 6, 



My hope of salvation rests on the ground that God 
owned me at the outset, and has never forfeited his own- 
ership. My soul may be small ; but it is as much God's 
as his own eternal spirit. It may for a season be lost ; 
but the ownership is not thereby transferred. Whether 
it be bathed in light, or buried in corruption, its divine 
portion belongs still to its living source ; and the ques- 
tion is not, What final disposition shall I make of myself? 
but rather, What final disposition shall be made of me 
by my Lord and Master? I have neither the right nor 
power to barter away my eternal soul, nor has any other 
than my heavenly Father the right or power to everlast- 
ingly control it. 

Rev. S. A. Gardner, Dec. 5, 1S42. 
Rev. C. H. Webster, 1817-1877. 



378 



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©ramta 6. 



379 



HBmmfar 7. 



Through the agency of an ever-living inspiration does 
God keep alive an actively present one in the souls of 
his children, — the truthful inspiration of the past. 

Rev. J. F. Rice, 1S25- 

When wasting life's last embers burn, 

Of days and years gone by, 
This truth shall gild the soul's return 

To fairer worlds on high, — 
That in the light of God's own love, 

Life's toils and struggles o'er, 
The soul shall, like a white-winged dove, 

Reach heaven's majestic shore. 

Rev. E Case, 1S19- 

Rev. J. II. RICE, 1836- 

— — — Sramfrer 8. — 



A sheep is lost. A restless lamb, astray, 

Hath wandered from the fold. Send forth the cry, 

" ; T will be devoured! " Fierce, ravening monsters lie 

In wait to rend it. Rouse the shepherd ! Nay, 

Since the first dawning of the murky day, 

He has been out among the desert hills 

Where lurks the brood whose fang a drop distils, 

Whose touch is death. He knows the wolf may slay 

His helpless lamb; far down the precipice 

That jagged rocks may crush its tender form; 

And the Good Shepherd will search on, nor cease 

Till in his arms he bear it safelv home. 

O Saviour, Shepherd! mid the wastes of sin, 

Still seek thy wandering sheep, and bring the last one in. 

Caroline M. Sawyer, 1S12- 
Rev. W. B. Cook, 1810-1871. 

Rev. J. E. FORRESTER, D.D., 1826-1881. 

380 



December 7. 



December 8. 



381 



Wttzmitx 9. 



I believe that all mankind will, through their own desire 
and faith, and shall, according to the purpose of God, 
attain salvation from sin through the mission of Jesus 
Christ. 

Rev. D. Ballou, 1838- 

Universalism — the dream of the poet, the fulfilment 
of prophecy, and the triumph of Jesus Christ. 

Rev. D. L. R. Libby, Dec. 10, 1S49- 



Qramber 10. 



The apostolic churches were formed by professors of 
the doctrine of universal redemption. Jesus Christ and 
his apostles preached and defended this doctrine. While 
the Universalists can produce so many illustrious vouch- 
ers, they can never be discomfited, or even embarrassed. 
Rev. John Murray, 1741-1814. 

Universalism is the grandest embodiment of the spirit 
and principles of the Christian religion. It reaches every 
phase of human life, and administers to every need of the 
soul all the help which true religion is designed to give, 
and points upward to the vision of re-union and eternal 
peace beyond the portal of the eternal city. It leads to 
a true and noble life, presenting an exalted ideal in a 
Christlike life ; it ever urges the soul onward and 
upward toward the great " / Am" 

Rev. James M. Little, 1843- 



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December 11. 



There is not one of the reformatory efforts of which 

we have spoken, but is founded on the " faith we preach : " 

their action so far as it is just and true, so far as it seeks 

the good of man, is wholly, entirely one with ours. Let 

the doctrines we profess and teach be banished from 

among men, and these movements w T ould die out in a 

day. 

Rev. J. W. Dennis, 1825-1863. 

The gospel has a religion that begins in the heart of 
the believer, as a seed of holiness that diffuses its sanc- 
tifying power over the whole inner man, and causes him 
truly to love God supremely and with a love that makes 
it his delight to do his will. This is what we call "evan- 
gelical religion" 

Rev. W. A. Drew, 1798- 

©ecemfrer 12. 



I know not what the future hath 

Of marvel or surprise, 
Assured alone that life and death 

His mercy underlies. 

And so beside the silent sea 

I wait the muffled oar : 
No harm from him can come to me 

On ocean or on shore. 

I know not where his islands lift 

Their fronded palms in air : 
I only know I cannot drift 

Beyond his love and care. 

J. G. Whittier, Dec. 17, 1807- 

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TBzttmbzx 13. 



With God " all things are possible," even the bringing 
of a rich man into the kingdom of heaven. And the Chris- 
tian world would recognize, not the possibility, not the 
probability, but the certainty, of the restoration of all erring 
souls to the everlasting home, were it not for the absurd, 
unscriptural, baseless doctrine, that God's care for human 
souls, his pity for them, and his spiritual operation upon 
them, cease with the life of their bodies I think that 
God pities his children the more, the farther they wander 
from home. 

Rev. G. L. Demarest, D.D , 1816- 



©crxmte 14. 



" He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save : " 
So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side 
Of that unpitying Phrvgian sect which cried, — 
11 Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave 
"Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave." 
So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed, 
The infant Church ; of love she felt the tide 
Stream on her from her Lord's yet recent grave ; 
And then she smiled, and in the Catacombs, 
With eye suffused, but heart inspired true, 
On those walls subterranean, where she hid 
Her head in ignominy, death, and tombs, 
She her Good Shepherd's hasty image drew, 
And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a kid. 

Matthew Arnold, Dec. 24, 1822- 

386 



December 13. 



December 14. 



387 



©ecetnber 15. 



Universalism exists only because God chose men to 
be made in his own image, — chose them to be thus, 
without a " perhaps," before the foundation of the world. 
And, because he thus chose, all men will eventually re- 
spond ; for who hath ever successfully resisted his will ? 
In the beginning he said, " Let it be," and it was : all 
things continue as they were from the foundation of the 
world. He made the herb and grass to yield seed, to 
hold within it the fulness of its nature ; and so, when he 
made man in his image, he elected him to become holy 
and without blame before him, just as the heavenly 
bodies were appointed for signs and seasons, for day 

and night. 

Rev. Mary T. Clark, Dec. 24, 1814-1884. 

©ecember 16. 



God is the Father of all, no less when the sands of life 
have run than here in the flesh. 

Rev. R. M. Byram, 1813-1884. 

If the believers in universal salvation wish to have 
their faith realized to their senses as well as to their 
hearts and feelings, let them lose no opportunity of lis- 
tening to this sublime oratorio of Handel's [Messiah], as 
well as to the symphonies generally of Beethoven. 

It is in the future, however, that the doctrine of the 
universal ingathering of mankind is to exercise its des- 
tined influence on art. It shall be in coming times the 
theme of grander music than was ever yet struck. A 
pencil surpassing Raphael's shall portray on the living 
canvas that finishing scene of unequalled sublimity ; 
and a verse loftier than Milton's or Dante's shall sing 
to other ages its transcendent and ineffable glories. 

Rev. T. Starr King, 1824-1865. 



388 



December 15. 



December 16. 



/ 389 



Bztzmizx 17. 



It was one of the plans of Christ to give light to the 
world. " I am come," said the Master, " that they may 
have light, and that they may have it more abundantly ; " 
and so it is one of the objects which the Universal ist 
Church of to-day has in view as one grand means of 
saving the world from sin, to scatter the light of God's 
truth throughout our land and the world. 

Rev. William Hooper, Dec. 25, 1809- 

Rev. V. G. Wheelock, 1806-1878, 
Rev. J. B. GiLMAN, 1822-1S81. 



©cctmber 18. 



The Universalis t faith gives the highest inspiration to 
human life. It alone can satisfy the demands of reason, 
nature, and the soul. Through it may be felt the, touches 
of infinite love and mercy, and heard the sweet voice 
from all the earth and heaven saying, " God is working 
within human hearts to will and do his good pleasure." 
The completeness of Matthew, the brevity of Mark, the 
definiteness of Luke, the love of John, the logic of Paul, 
and the submission of Mary, vouch for its truthfulness. 
All souls are praying for its spread. Poets are singing 
its praise. Art is expressing it on stone and canvas. 
Science is illustrating it as true. Philosophy is explain- 
ing it as divine. The best theological thought of the age 
is rallying to its support. How could it be otherwise ? 
Its natural language is God, Christ, heaven. 

Rev. Sullivan Holman McCollester, 1826- 



390 



Bittmbzx 17. 



December 18. 



391 



©eccmier 19. 



Universalism is the mot/ier-side of God, or the mother- 
hood of God. Evidently God is as much our mother as 
he is our father. 

Rev. E. M. Clarke, 1848- 

Not by the harsh or scornful word 
Should we our brothers seek to gain, 

Not by the prison or the sword, 
The shackle or the clanking chain. 

But from our spirits there must flow 
A love that will his wrong outweigh, 

Our lips must only blessings know, 
And wrath and sin shall die away. 

Mary A. Livermore, 1821- 
Rev. Edgar Leavitt. 

- — Wztzmitx 20. 



And yet how many thousands all around us are per- 
petually presenting as the main objection to our faith, 
that it never supports the dying. Could they witness 
what we have witnessed of the power of this faith, dis- 
pelling all fear of death, all thoughts of the grave in the 
soul about to depart, so that its victory over physical 
suffering, over all earthly trial, sorrow, and anxiety, and 
over death itself, was perfect, going out at last in a ra- 
diance of glory and in the enjoyment of the sweetest 
peace, — could thev see all this, we repeat, as we have 
seen it in one whose faith included the salvation of the 
world in its warm embrace, how changed would become 
their views relative to this subject ! 

Rev. G. W. Quinbv, D.D., 1810-1884. 



392 



©ecemtin; 19. 



HBecemta 20. 



393 



December 21. 



A firm persuasion that our Creator is possessed of 
every possible excellence, that he is our constant and 
best friend, that we are entirely at his merciful disposal, 
that he is conducting us and all our brethren of mankind, 
by the wisest means, to the highest happiness, and that 
the natural and moral disorders which afflict us are the 
instruments by which he will eventually establish the 
universal and eternal reign of purity and bliss, cannot but 
tend to expand the heart, to cherish the benevolent 
affections, to soften the manners, and unite the whole 
human race in the tenderest bonds of friendship and 
affection. 

T. Southwood Smith, M.D., 1788-1861. 



December 22. 



I was converted to Universalism in 1847. My instincts 
from a child were in full accord with such a grand result ; 
but I had been educated to believe that all who die with- 
out some kind of a mysterious conversion will be lost to 
God's protection, love, and mercy : surely a great mis- 
take. The key to solve the great problem of human 
destiny I found in interpreting the Scriptures in accord 
with God's unchangeable nature, foreknowledge, and 
love : " One God, and Father of all, who is over all, in all, 
and through all, who will have all men to be saved, and 
come to the knowledge of the truth." Being fully satisfied 
that such a result would be more satisfactory to our com- 
mon humanity, and in perfect harmony with the divine 
government, I embraced it, love it, and shall hope to die 

with all its grand surroundings. 

Rev. Thomas Ballinger. 

394 



Dcrrmbtr 21. 



December 22. 



395 



Secembet 23. 



Where now is our hope ? Shall we never meet them 
again ? Must we look for them only in the depths of the 
dark waters ? Ah, no ! Beyond the storm is a tranquil 
sea, a haven of rest, a peaceful harbor, where we shall 
all anchor at last. Though the storm parts us, and we 
lose sight of each other, there is One who will guide our 
barks, yes, and who controls the winds, and he will 
waft us to that sweet haven of eternal rest. And here 
we anchor our hope, 

" Till we, on divers shores now cast, 
Shall meet, our perilous voyage past, 
All in our Father's house at last." 

Rev. E. L. Conger, 1839- 

December 24. 



Universalism, therefore, is not doubting, but believing. 
It has no scepticism in it. It staggers not at the prom- 
ises. It is not a doubt, but a faith : it is not a gloom, 
but a glory. Its God is omnipotent ; its Christ is effi- 
cient ; its prophecies are histories written before ; its 
truth is sure to win ; its mission is to be triumphant. It 
sees death conquered, the grave robbed of its victory, 
immortality universal, the gospel victorious over sin. and 
the sentient creation rejoicing in the light, and soaring in 
the glory, of spiritual and eternal life. 

Rev. G. S. Weaver, D.D., 1818- 



396 



©ecember 23. 



©ecemfar 24. 



397 



©ecember 25. 



We are encouraged to believe that the great law of 
growth, which he has ordained for the good of the race, 
will ultimately lead all God's children into the light, aiid 
up to the stature of perfect men and women. 

Rev. B. N. Wiles, 1815-1880. 

" He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be 
satisfied." This faith sustained and encompassed me 
when the heavy shadows of bereavement came to me and 
mine, leaving the sweet incense of peace in the soul, 
which is abiding. 

Cordelia A. Quinby, 1833- 



©ectmbfr 26. 



How could I tread the hallowed plain 
Where God and Christ and angels are, 

Or how could heaven to me be gain, 
Unless the lad were with me there ? 

How could I join that wondrous throng, 
Mid burnished crowns, and burning thrones, 

And know his voice shall but prolong 

Hell's dolorous, deep, and dreadful groans ? 

Yes, dearest boy, thy every woe 

On earth 't is given me to share : 
May God no other world bestow, 

Unless that boon be granted there ! 

Rev. L. C. Marvin, Sept. si, 1808- 

398 



December 25. 



December 26. 



399 



©ecemfar 27. 



I believe in the verity of John's vision, when he saw 
all in heaven and earth and in the sea reconciled to God, 
and heard a voice from this redeemed multitude, which 
he could only compare to the " voice of the many waters," 
blending in praises to the Omnipotent One. In this hope 
of the final victory of good over evil I live. Through what 
changes and divine disciplines, and after what consum- 
mations of the ages, it is to be effected, I know not ; but 
I do believe God's honor and glory will in the end be 
acknowledged by all the intelligent creation, in a voice 
far surpassing in grandeur the material voice of many 
waters. 

Rev. O. F. Safford, Dec. 25, 1837- 

The love of a brother seeks the entireness of the 
brotherhood. The principle that seeks the good of man 
does not stop short of mankind. 

Rev. C. C. Conner, Dec. 23, 1856- 

fflecembet 28. 



The growing liberality of faith under the old creeds is 
the most hopeful sign of the times ; but it continually 
" draws our fire." Members of other churches are no 
longer thrust out for cherishing our heresy ; and so thev 
contentedly remain. Nay, in many of these churches our 
doctrine is no longer heresy ; not only are those frankly 
avowing it received into fellowship, but the church takes 
pains to state that such belief is no longer in the way of 
fellowship here, or salvation hereafter. 

Mrs. H. A. Bingham, Dec. 29, 1841-1877. 



400 



December 27, 



©ecembet 28. 



401 



©ecember 29. 



This is the nursery-ground of infantile immortals. In 
the most favored conditions we only begin to learn here, 
and none ever pass beyond the alphabet of absolute 
knowledge. Eternity is the term allotted for our in- 
struction, and therein lies an infinite stretch of possi- 
bility of attainment. The evident law governing the 
relation of this life and the future is that we begin there 
exactly as we leave off here. In that higher and better 
life, we humbly trust and believe all souls may enter 
upon the scale of advancement, with no outward clogs of 
passions and appetites. The worst of beings may begin 
the way of growth and amendment. God will not hinder 
any soul, and all good spirits will help. And there, in 
that genial clime, basking in the sunlight of infinite love, 
the least germ of immortal life may expand and grow up 
into the estate of the sons of God. 

John R. Sage, 1832- 

" Our Father ! " — how that expression vivifies the na- 
ture of him who can feel the truth of what he utters, 
however feebly, however rudely spoken. — by the savage 
or by the little child, by the erring, or the desolate, by 
any that feel the need of something they can stand upon! 
" Our Father ! " Princes can say no more ; beggars can 
say as much. It rises from the plane of humanity, leaps 
across the starry spaces of the sky ; over the broad ocean 
its tones are taken up, bringing peace and comfort, cast- 
ing its cheering influence over kingdoms and nation- 
alities; is borne along like an undertone of music, to 
prolong the universal harmony. Here is the true grand 
creed for humanity ; there is no discovery of science 
that will exhaust or cancel it ; it is the rule of Christian 
and human unity itself. 

Rev. Edwin H. Chapin, D.D., LL.D.. 1814-1880. 



- December 29. 



403 



©ecemfar 30. 



Although we are sensible of our imperfections, and of 
the apostasy and moral defection of now and then an 
individual of our order, let us attribute the^e things to our 
own weakness ; and, praying the Almighty for strength 
to persevere in duty and holiness, let us never forget our 
obligation to love God, because he first loved us, nor 
neglect to bow in humility to that unerring and un- 
changing goodness that leads to repentance. 

Rev. W. I. Reese, Dec. 25, 1799-1834. 

There are those who avow, that, if they did not believe 
in endless punishment, they would commit all kinds of 
wickedness. In acknowledging such a spiritual rotten- 
ness, they manifest at least one healthy fibre, that of 
honesty ; but let such a tiger disposition still wear the 
chain that keeps it from deranging society, and outraging 
humanity. 

Mrs. L. J. B. Case, 1807-1857. 
Rev. Linus Paine, 1804-1884. 

Wztzxttitx 31. 



Finally, this is God's world. He made it, he owns 
it, and whatsoever is in it he permits to be here. More- 
over, "of his own will begat he us." There was no 
compulsion in it. It was the free expression of his own 
beneficence. He desires the final well-being of all men, 
has provided means to that end, and by all considera- 
tions of right and of reason must ultimately reclaim his 

own. 

Rev. James Henry Chapin, Ph.D., 1832- 



404 



Secemte 30. 



Secemfar 31. 






405 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



En&ej; of authors. 



Page 

Abbot, T . 142 

Abbott, A. R 370 

Adams, I. ...... .... 114 

Adams, J. C 332 

Adams, J. G „ 238 

Adams, M. A 134 

Akenside, M, 348 

Alvord, F. M 322 

Ambler, R. P 310 

Andrews, L. F. W. 282 

Andrews, L. M 24 

April 109 

Arnold, E. .... 322 

Arnold, M 386 

Ashent'elter, O. I 276 

Ashton, S 248 

Atkinson, J. P 358 

Atwood, I. M 98 

August ,., 241 

Austin, J. J 360 

Austin, J. M. ...... 282 

Bacon, Davis 256 

Bacon, H 186 

Bacon, W. S 284 

Bailey, Giles 148 

Bailey, G. W * 94 

Bailey, J. M 20 

Bailey, P. J 130 

Baker, H. H 364 

Baker, H. S 286 



Page 

Balch, W. S 122 

Ballard, T. E. 352 

Ballinger, T 394 

Ballou, B , 346 

Ballou, D 382 

Ballou, E 374 

Ballou, H. 138 

Ballou, H., 2d 326 

Ballou, H. F 112 

Ballou, Massena .. 368 

Ballou, Moses 102 

Ballou, W. S 16 

Barber, W.N 88 

Barnes, Alfred 128 

Barnes, Lucy 153 

Barnes, T 314 

Barron, T 126 

Barry, A. C 208 

Bartholomew, J. G. 70 

Bartol, C. A 26 

Bates, A. M 44 

Bates, George 58 

Battles, Amory 176 

Beard, CM....... 280 

Beattie, J 330 

Bell, William 190 

Bennett, S. F, 196 

Bicknell, G. W 342 

Biddle, C. W 376 

Biddlecome, D. R. 226 

Bingham, H, A. 400 

Binns, S 264 



Page 

Bisbee, F. A 334 

Bishop, Joy 62 

Blacker, R 22 

Blackford, J. H 120 

Blackford, L. P 348 

Blanchard, H 254 

Bliss, F. S 306 

Bolles, E. C 294 

Borden, T 296 

Bowles, A. C 242 

Bowles, B. F 78 

Bowring, J 326 

Boyden, J 154 

Boynton, L. D 96 

Bradbury, H. J 318 

Bradley, C. A 114 

Brainard, O W 306 

Breare, R 192 

Briggs, E. L 136 

Brigham, L. W 166 

Britton,J 338 

Bronte, E 130 

Brooke, S 52 

Brooks, E. G. .. 232 

Brooks, W. C 30 

Broughton, S 336 

Brown, C. S 94 

Brown, John 38 

Brown, J. Baldwin 126 

Brown, Willis O. . . 14 

Browne, L. C 82 

Browning, E. B 24 



409 





Entia; of Sltitfjors. 




Bruce, E. M 


306 j Coleridge, S. T. .. 


328 Eastwood, J 


90 


Brunnlng, B 


102 


Collins, G 


316 Eaton, B. F. ... 


. 292 


Bryant, W. C 


342 


Cone, O 


356 Eaton, C. H 


• 256 


Buchanan, R 


370 


Conger, EL 


396 Eaton, S. YV 


• 348 


Buck, L 


314 


Conklin, A 


122 


Eddy, R 


. 190 


Buhver-Lytton, R. 
Bunn, D. P 


346 
2=6 


Conner, C. C 

Cook, J. M 


400 
3 6 4 


Ellis, S 


• 158 
. 27 J 


Emerson, G. H. . 


Burnell, W. P 


2S 


Cook, W. B 


3S0 


Emery, J. 


• 230 


Burns, R 


250 


Cook, Z 


30 


Emmett, W. Y. . . . 


. 224 


Burruss, J. C 

Byram, R. P 


156 
33S 


Corbin, E. S 

Cox, G.N 


294 
"4 


Erskine, T 


12 
. 80 


Evans, F 


Byron, Lord 


3*8 


Craik, D. M 

Crary, N 


40 
234 










Creamer, L. M. .. 


x 5° 


Farnsworth, J. H.. 


. 312 


Campbell, W 


362 


Crehore, J 


252 


Farrar, F. W. 


. £0 


Caniwell, J. S 


202 


Critchett, T. W. . . 


72 


Fay, C. H 


• 353 


Capen, E. H 


114 


Crosley, L. D 


84 


February 


• 43 


Carey, Alice 


136 


Crosiey, L. S 


3i8 


Fernald. W. M. . 


. ICO 


Carey, Phoebe 


280 


Crowe, W. S 


356 


Ferris, E 


. 62 


Carlton, S. P 


98 


Crum, A 


312 


Ferris, W 


. 28 


Carney, J. A. F. 


116 


Curry, W. W 


58 


Fish, A. C 


• 332 


Carney, T. J 


184 


Cushman, H. L .. 


236 


Fisher, E 


• 70 


Carpenter, E 


100 






Fisk, R 


. 66 


Case, E 


380 

404 


Damon, C 


230 


Flanders, G. T. . . . 
Fletcher, L. J. . . . 


. 188 
• 3^6 


Case, L. J. B 


Chaffee, E.J 


q6 


Davis, B. H 


288 


Fletcher, S. S 


. 114 


Chamberlain, W. R. 


342 


Davis, Josiah 


128 


Flint, F. C 


. 150 


Chapin, A.J 

Chapin, Eben H. .. 


°22 


Davis. M. S 


104 
86 




C2 


362 


Davis, S. A 


Forrester, J. E 


. 380 


Chapin, Edwin H. 


402 


Davis, S. G 


256 


Foster, John 


• 294 


Chapin, J. H 

Chatfield, P 


404 
222 


December 


373 
280 




. 168 


Deere, G. H 


Franklin, B 


. 272 


Child, L. M 


5-4 


DeLong, W. M. .. 


276 


Freeman, J 


• 154 


Clapp, T „ 


10 


Demarest, G. L. 


386 


French, W. R. . . . 


. 182 


Clark, A. G 


296 


Dennis, J. W 


384 


Froude, J. A 


• 14 


Clark, G. H 


338 


Dick, Thomas 


364 


Fuller, S. W 


• 3X8 


Clark, M. T 


388 


Dillingham, F. A. . . 


36 






Clark, O. B 


288 


Dillingham, W. A. P 


280 






Clarke, E. M 


392 


Dinsmore, L. J. . . 


262 


Gage, E. B 


. 212 


Clavton, D. B 


254 


Dodge, J. S 


376 


Gage, F. D 


. 320 


Cleverley, A. C, .. 
Clough, A. H 


96 

330 








. 88 


Drew, E. A 


362 


Gaines, A. G 


. 100 


Cobb, E. H. W. . . 


36 


Drew, W. A 


384 


Gardner, C 


. 270 


Cobb. S 


224 


Druley, T. C 


236 


Gardner, S. A. ... 


37S 


Cobbe, F. P 


no 


Duganne, A. H. .. 


2J8 


Garkin, W. E. . . . 


360 


Coffin, E. W 


374 


Dutton, C. H 


3i4 


Gillette, L. F. W. 


118 



410 



Entiex jrf &utf)org. 



Gilman, J. B 390 

Gledhill.J. S 238 

Goff, S 146 

Goodell, W. S 244 

Goodenough, S. . . 66 

Goodrich, J. T 168 

Goodrich, Massena 290 

Goodrich, Moses.. 332 

Gorton, J 216 

Gowdy, G. S 160 

Grant, E. M 270 

Gregg, Andrew 94 

Greeley, Horace . . 46 

Greene, R. A 320 

Greenwood, T. J. . . 142 

Griswold, H. T 34 

Grosh, A. B 162 

Guion, Madame .. 32 

Gunnison, A 76 

Gunnison, N 64 



Hallock, B. B 192 

Hanaford P. A. .. 146 

Hanson, E R 120 

Hanson, J. W 152 

Harris, T. L 162 

Haskell, C. L 160 

Haskell, P. L. .... 48 

Hastings, G 318 

Haven, K 66 

Hawthorne, N 210 

Hayward, H. L. . . 212 

Hay ward, W. W... 326 

Hebbard, S. S 280 

Henley, J. W 278 

Hervey, A. B 106 

Hewitt, E 290 

Hill, George 214 

Hill, X. S 32 

Hitchcock, B. F. .. 314 

Hodgdon, N. C. . . 266 

Hodge, D. M 250 

Hodsdon, F. A 356 

Hogg, J 272 

Holmes, L 350 



Holmes, O. W 


. 272 


Hooper, W 


. 390 


Hooper, W. W. . 


• 58 


Houghton, M. H. . 


• 92 


Howe, Z. H 


• 234 


Hoyt, J. A 


. 290 




. 176 


Hull, S 


. 194 


Humboldt, A. . . . 


. 200 




. 328 


Ingelow, Jean . . . 


• 78 


JANUARY 


9 


Jerauld, C. A. ... 


. 124 


Jewell, H 


. 224 


John, R.N 


. 64 


Johnson. J. R. ... 


• 38 


Johnson, O. H 


. 176 


Johnson, S . 


• 294 


Johnson, W 


. 114 


Jones, Thomas . . . 


. 116 


July 


207 


June 




Keirn, G. I 


. 298 


Kent, A 


. 36S 


Kent, G. W 


. 260 


Kimmel, O. P. ... 


. 178 


King, T. S 


. 388 


Kingsley, C 


. 190 


Knickerbacker,C.W.i86 


Knowlton, I. C. . 


. 282 


Kollock, F. E 


. 28 


Laing, A. H 


• 5° 


Lamb, C 




Landers, S. P. . . . 


. 266 


Larcom, L. 


. 328 


Lathrop, E. A. B. . 


. 118 


Lathrop, T. S. . . . 


. 90 


Laurie, A. G 


. 92 


Lawrence, G. W. . 


. 300 



Laws, S 354 

Leavitt, E 392 

Lee, C. F 166 

Lee, D. K 284 

Lee, J. S 298 

Le Fevre, C. F. .. 352 

Leonard, C- H 292 

Leonard, H. C 134 

Lewis, J. J 212 

Libby, D. L. R. . . 382 

Lincoln, A 54 

Lincoln, V 300 

Little, J. M 582 

Livermore, D. P... 192 

Livermore, M. A. .. 392 

Livingston, W 320 

Lockwood, J 130 

Longfellow, H. W. 180 

Lovejoy, W. W. .. 236 

Loveland, S. C 44 

Lowell, J. R 276 

Lyon, H 208 

Macdonald, G. 84 

Mackay, C 180 

MacLean, J. P 86 

Maguire, F 164 

Manley, W. E 228 

March 75 

Marvin, J 164 

Marvin, L. C 398 

Massey, G 170 

Mather, E. L 16 

Maurice, J. F. D. . . 270 

Maxham, G. V 204 

MAY 141 

Mayo, A. D 266 

Mayo, S. C. E 94 

Mc Arthur, A 18 

Mc Arthur, K 350 

McCollester, S. H. 390 

McKinney, L. F. . . 166 

Mc Master, J. W. . . 242 

McMorris, S. J. . . 78 

Mead, I. J 26 



411 



foxbtx of authors. 



Mellen, C W. . . 


. . 200 


Merrineld, J 


.. 246 


Merritt, W. W. . . 


.. 260 


Messenger, G. . . 


.. 62 


Miles, E. E 


.. 8$ 


Miller, H. F 


. . 264 


Miiler, 0. D 


• • 3 2 4 


Miller, T. H 


.. 250 


Miner, A. A 


.. 258 


Mitchell, M. G. 


.. 250 


Montgomer)-, G. 


W. 116 


Moor, C. R 


• • 156 


Moore, A 


22 


Moore, J 


.. 48 


Moore, T 


.. 228 


Morris, E 


•• 32 


Morrison, W, H. 


.. 3-1 2 


Morse, H. W, . . 


.. 148 


Murray, John . . 


.. 146 


Murray, Judith.. 


.. 382 


Nash, C. E 


.. 152 


Nash, C. P. .... 


.. 170 


Nichols, J 


.. u3 


Nightingale, F. 


12 


November 


.. 34i 


Nye, H. R 


.. 304 


October 


.. 309 


Olds, W. W 


• • 368 




18 


Ossoli, M. F 


.. 164 


Page, E. R 


.. 146 


Paige, L. R 


.. 82 


Paine, J. M 


•• 332 


Palmer, J. E 


.. 64 


Park, M 


.. 242 , 


Parker. S. A 


.. 184 


Partridge, E 


.. 182 


Patterson, A. J. 


.. 112 


Patterson, J. L. 


.. 178 


Payson, J. M. . . 


. . 122 


Percival, J. G. 


. . 316 



Perin, G. L 238 Rounds, O. A. 

Perkins, 252 Rugg, H. W. 

Perkins, S. M. C. . . 132 Russ, B. K. . 

Perkins, W. S 114 : Ryder, W. H. 

Perry, G. W 328 

Perry, H. G 286 

Pickering, D 168 

Pierce, J. D 354 

Pingree, E. M 150 

Polk, R.T 354 

Pope, R. S no 

Porter, C 68 

Porter, R. S no 

Potter, T 104 

Pray, M. C 120 

Preble, E. *\Y. .... 100 

Preface 5 

Procter, A. A 60 

Proctor, G, 280 

Pullman, J. M 262 

Pullman, R. H. . . 204 

Putnam, J. W 46 ' 



302 
90 
220 



Quinby, C. A 398 

Quinby, G. W 392 

Quinby, L. A 152 

Ralph, W. S 362 

Rayner, M 364 

Record, L. L 276 

Reed, D. M 178 

Reese, W. 1 434 

Rexford, E. L. . . . , 132 

Reynolds, E. W. . . 268 

Rhoades, J. F 296 

Rice, C. E 374 

Rice, J. F 380 

Rice, J. H 380 

Rich, H. H 192 

Roberts, 30 

Roblin. S. H 314 

Rogers, A. G 82 

Rogers, B. F 230 

Root, A. F 228 



Safford, O. F 400 

Sage, J. R 402 

Sample, S. W 34 

Sanford, J H 360 

Sanford, M. 320 

Sawyer, C. M 380 

Sawyer, E. E 268 

Sawyer, J. C 236 

Sawyer, T. J 18 

Saxe, A 368 

Saxton, N. A 232 

Schiller, J. H 362 

Schindler, J. W, . . 198 

Scott, J. H 344 

September 275 

Shaw, A.J 182 

Shelley, P. B 246 

Shepard, J 118 

Shipman, W. R. . . 144 

Shrigley, J 114 

Simmons. J . F 334 

Sisson, W 226 

Skinner, C. A 128 

Skinner, D 158 

Skinner, J. O.' 60 

Skinner, 366 

Skinner, O. A 210 

Skinner, S. P 56 

Skinner, W 176 

Slade, H 210 

Smith, A 20 

Smith, B 336 

Smith, E. 252 

Smith, G 208 

Smith, G. L 364 

Smith, H 20 

Smith, H. B 56 

Smith, S. R 302 

Smith, S. P 50 

Smith, T. S 394 



412 



Entiei of ^utfjorg. 



Snow, J. C 286 

Soule, C. A 278 

Soule, H. B 214 

Southey, R 252 

Spafford, R. G 144 

Spear, C 190 

Spencer, L. J 344 

Sprague, F. W. . . 102 

Stacy, N 374 

Start, W. A 76 

Steere, M. J 324 

Stetson, S 218 

Stevens, D. T 126 

Stocking, G. B. . . 292 

Strain, B. F 33 

Straub, J 182 

Streeter, R 124 

Streeter, S 124 

Strong, T 82 

Stuart, CD 234 

Sumner, C 304 

Sutton, S. W 28 

Sweetser, E. C. .. 90 

Tabor, T. H 262 

Taylor, J 204 

Tenney, C. R 66 

Tenney, T. J 30 

Thayer, A. A 230 

Thayer, T. B 284 

Thomas, A, C 218 



Thomas, H. W. . . 138 

Thomas, M. L. . . 154 

Thompson, E 230 

Thompson, J. R. . . 186 

Thornton, C. C. . . 366 

Thornton, R 370 

Tibbetts, A 218 

Titus, A 193 

Todd, M. G 244 

Tomlinson, C. W. .268 

Tomlinson, E. C. . . 160 

Tomlinson, D. C. . . 226 

Tomlinson, R 310 

Tomlinson, V. E . . 94 

Turner, E 234 

Tuttle, J. H 234 

Twiss, J.J 320 

Usher, J. M 352 

Vail, W. S 68 

Vibbert, G. H 254 

Vincent, C. S 94 

Vincent, J 94 

Waite, C. L 124 

Waldo, J. C 378 

Wallace, J 94 

Washburne, 1 180 



Weaver, G. S 396 

Webster, C. H. .. 378 

Webster, H. D. L. 270 

Weeks, J. J 106 

Wellington, E no 

Weston, J. P 220 

Wheelock, V. G. . . 390 

Whiston, 130 

Whitcomb, T. J. . . 178 

White, A. E 360 

White.. H. K 202 

White, N 34 

Whitman, W 172 

Whitney, G. W. . . 102 

Whitney, H. E. .. 126 

Whitney, Q 316 

Whittemore, B. .. 144 

Whittemore, T. .. 10 

Whittier, J. G 384 

Wiles, B. N 398 

Wilkes, E. T 316 

Williams, R. O. .. 154 

Williamson, I. D. . . 112 

Willis, J. H 80 

Willis, L 132 

Willis, O. B 14 

Willson, A 204 

Wilson, J. V 284 

Wilson, W. W 364 

Winthrop, T 296 

Wright, N. R 62 



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